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Pre- and post-monsoon variations in the magnetic susceptibilities of soils of Mumbai metropolitan region: implications to surface redistribution of urban soils loaded with anthropogenic particulates

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Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) in India represents one of the most industrialized and thickly populated areas of the monsoon dominated Asian region. We present here pre- and post-monsoon magnetic susceptibility variations in the top-soils representing sampling domains of industrial, heavy traffic and forested areas within MMR. The rock magnetic studies (including isothermal and anhysteric remanent magnetization and hysteresis loop analysis) infer predominant pseudo single domain to multi domain grains in an overall ferrimagnetic dominant mineralogy of the soils. The susceptibility-temperature variations (from −190 to 700°C) infer maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) as the chief mineral component of pedogenic origin, and the pure magnetite (Fe3O4) is of anthropogenic nature. Spatial distribution of ferrimagnetic concentration is in agreement with polluting sources. The post-monsoon redistribution pattern is greatly controlled by the surface runoff and topographic conditions. The study demonstrates that in a ferrimagnetically reach substrate like MMR, the spatial distribution patterns derived from routine concentration- and grain-size-dependent rock magnetic parameters integrated with topographic and seasonal attributes yield significant information on the style and surface re-distribution of anthropogenically loaded soils and sediments to identify its seasonal dumping. Alternatively, knowing the source of signal, the magnetic susceptibility can be further used as a robust parameter to produce detailed maps to monitor the pollutions in urban areas.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Directors, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) and Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology (IITM), and Head, Department of Geology, University of Pune for providing necessary facilities. We acknowledge the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) for the HYSPLIT transport and dispersion model and/or READY website (http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready.php). We also thank to three anonymous reviewers for the critical review of the earlier version of this manuscript greatly improving it. The present work was partly funded by ISRO-UoP grant GOIA/337 (B) 82.

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    S. S. Gudadhe, S. J. Sangode, D. C. Meshram & A. G. Badekar

  2. K. S. Krishnan Geomagnetic Research Laboratory (IIG), Chamanganj, Allahabad, 221 505, India

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  3. Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune, 411 008, India

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Gudadhe, S.S., Sangode, S.J., Patil, S.K. et al. Pre- and post-monsoon variations in the magnetic susceptibilities of soils of Mumbai metropolitan region: implications to surface redistribution of urban soils loaded with anthropogenic particulates. Environ Earth Sci 67, 813–831 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1528-z

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