Environmental Pollution Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soils and Crops in Xinping Area of Yunnan Province, China
and Qingjie Gong 4,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The detailed review is being attached. I suggested some revisions that can improve the quality of manuscript.
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Some typos and quality of English is required to improve the manuscript.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear author, congratulation for the great paper, but I can suggest some points of view. First, the term "ca" in in line 22 and others can't be clear to me. I understood that represent "China area in study".
Also, I think that is important to be clear is the studied area was explored by mining activity and is had some dumps or another mineral waste.
If not, the source of contamination is natural.
if yes, please we need mor descriptions about activity and how this area was prepared to land crops.
and the last, what solution the author recommend solving this problem and how much food, (ton/km2) are produced as maize, walnut and rice, mainly in the areas with integrated pollution is hight
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Reviewer 3 Report
(1) 11 heavy metals were introduced (Line 32-35) in this paper. However, five heavy metals including As, Cd, Cr, Hg, and Pb were detailed studied. Why did you reduce them? Did you not test all of them, or did you have other considerations? The paper should provide corresponding explanations.
(2) Figure 1 shows the geological map with many granite outcrops. Generally speaking, granite needs to be marked with a "+" symbol on geological maps, and the sampling point symbol also uses this symbol, which can cause confusion and is not recommended.
(3) Soil samples were tested for As and Hg using AFS method. When testing crop samples, Hg uses AFS, but As uses ICP-MS. Why? In general, the best testing method for As and Hg is AFS.
(4) In Table 1, Q needs to be explained. In addition, the geometric mean contents of heavy metals of surface soils in Yunnan province need to be provided, which should correspond to the main text (Line 151).
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