Heavy metals concentration in undisturbed peat soil at Pekan District, Pahang, West Malaysia

• Main Authors: Abdul, Wahab, Muzamir, Hasan, Ud Din, Zaheer, Zaman, Qamar Uz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: School of Renewable Energy, Maejo University 2021
• Subjects: TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/35780/1/Heavy%20metals%20concentration%20in%20undisturbed%20peat%20soil%20at%20Pekan%20District%2C%20Pahang%2C%20West%20Malaysia%20Full%20Paper.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/35780/; https://ph02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/MIJEEC/article/view/245731; https://doi.org/10.54279/mijeec.v3i2.245731

Soil is a mixture of various materials such as air, water, and organic matter. Soft soil (peat) has very deprived physical properties such as low shear strength, high moisture content, high compressibility, and permeability. In an engineering perspective it is considered as a weak soil, while an the...