Assessment of heavy metal pollution in soil and bottom sediment of Upper Egypt: comparison study

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 2 Index of geoaccumulation (I_geo) values for the studied samples

Sample No	Location	type	Fe	As	Pb	Cr	Cd	Co	Zn	Cu	Ni
1	Luxor	Nile Sediments	0.37	0.01	0.73	1.26	0.57	0.14	0.73	0.06	0.10
2			0.48	0.01	0.74	1.31	0.57	0.19	0.85	0.07	0.11
3			0.38	0.01	0.83	1.37	0.46	0.23	0.82	0.06	0.10
4	Aswan		1.43	0.00	0.79	0.10	0.92	0.39	0.41	0.08	0.11
5			1.30	0.00	1.11	0.09	1.26	0.32	0.46	0.20	0.11
6			1.41	0.05	0.33	0.17	1.60	0.40	0.60	0.10	0.14
Average			0.90	0.01	0.76	0.72	0.90	0.28	0.65	0.10	0.11
7	Habo City	Agricultural Soil	0.13	0.21	0.21	0.98	0.80	0.68	0.77	0.19	0.60
8			1.19	0.22	0.25	1.04	0.92	0.76	0.79	0.23	0.65
9			1.41	0.25	0.29	0.95	1.03	0.81	0.82	0.21	0.68
10	Edfo		1.39	0.21	0.17	0.79	0.57	0.88	0.64	0.16	0.51
11	High Dam		0.66	0.00	0.17	0.85	0.34	0.73	2.12	0.15	0.11
12	High Dam		0.56	0.00	0.19	0.91	0.46	0.80	2.21	0.16	0.15
13	Fiyla		0.69	0.00	0.28	0.98	0.46	0.89	2.33	0.12	0.17
Average			0.86	0.13	0.22	0.93	0.65	0.79	1.38	0.17	0.41