Open AccessASSESSMENT OF SOME INDICES OF OIL-CONTAMINATED SOILS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE ABSHERON PENINSULA
Author(s) -
F. M. Mamedova,
Huseynova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
computational geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2468-547X
pISSN - 2468-5380
DOI - 10.31618/essa.2782-1994.2021.1.68.14
Subject(s) - environmental science , oil pollution , land reclamation , pollution , pollutant , environmental protection , soil water , oil spill , contamination , soil contamination , environmental engineering , ecology , soil science , biology
Contaminated of soil ecosystem with oil and oil products is one of the most complex and multiplane problem of environmental protection. No other man made pollutant no matter how dangerous it is, can’t compare with oil by the volume of distribution, number of pollution sources, the amount of load on all components of the natural environment during well accidents. Oil spills cause great harm, due to the large migration capacity capturing territories, many times higher than the initial pollution. As a result tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land are polluted, are withdrawn from agricultural turover. Oil-contaminated soils are the sources of secondary pollution of atmosphere and underground waters, having a huge negative ecological impact on flora and fauna. Suffice it to note that only on Absheron oil district several tens of thousand of hectares of land are subject to reclamation. Loss of oil-contaminated lands and rapid degradation of landscapes causes the need to study processes, that stipulate their transformation.