... of soils in China and twice as much as the naturalbackground value of soils in the Nanjing area. The mean tota l Zn concentration is greaterthan the mean value of soils in China and twice as ... important soil types of Beijing and Nanjing areas. Acta Pedol. Sin. 16, 319 – 328 (in Chinese, with English Abstr.).Thornton, I., 1991. Metal contamination of soils in urban areas. In: Bullock, ... the main source of Pb contamination in urban soils. The concentrations of Cu, Zn, Pb and Cr in non-urban soils are much lowerthan those in urban soils, and are not polluted by Cu, Zn, Pb and Cr....