Mineralogical and geochemical studies on soils and Nile bottom sediments of Luxor–Aswan area, South Egypt

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 1 Chemical analysis data of the heavy and radioactive elements (ppm)

S. nos	Location		As	Pb	Cr	Cd	Co	Zn	Cu	Ni	Mn	U	Th
1	Luxor	Nile sediments	0.2	39.8	193.9	0.5	5.5	128.6	6.6	13.7	488.9	0.3	1.2
2			0.21	40.5	201	0.5	7.5	150	7.5	15.2	497	0.4	1.5
3			0.31	45.2	210	0.4	9.2	145	6.9	14.3	510.1	0.4	1.7
4	Aswan		0.01	42.7	15.6	0.8	15.4	72.2	8.7	15.9	2094	0.7	6.7
5			0.02	60.4	13.2	1.1	12.5	80.5	22	14.8	2140	0.8	7.5
6			1.3	17.7	25.7	1.4	15.6	105.3	10.7	19.5	1995	0.5	4.3
		Average	0.34	41.05	109.90	0.78	10.95	113.60	10.40	15.57	1287.50	0.52	3.82
7	Habu City	Agricultural soil	5.3	11.4	150.1	0.7	26.8	135.2	20.8	83.1	1129	0.6	6.1
8			5.6	13.4	160	0.8	30	140	25	90.5	1340	0.5	7.4
9			6.2	15.6	145	0.9	32	145	23	94.8	1546	0.55	6.8
10	Edfu		5.2	9.5	121.4	0.5	34.8	113.1	17.6	71.2	71.2	1.2	9.1
11	High Dam		0.02	9.1	131.1	0.3	28.6	373	16.3	14.9	1044.9	0.7	7.2
12			0.03	10.2	140	0.4	30.5	390	17.8	20.5	11,054	0.8	8.1
13	Philae		0.04	15.1	150	0.4	35.2	410	12.5	23.3	380.5	0.6	8.5
		Average	3.20	12.04	142.51	0.57	31.13	243.76	19.00	56.90	2366.51	0.71	7.60