Soil in criminal and environmental forensics : proceedings of the Soil Forensics Special, 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference, the Hague /: proceedings of the Soil Forensics Special, 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference, the Hague. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Henk Kars, Lida van den Eijkel.
• Editors: Kars, Henk; Eijkel, Lida van den
• Other Names: European Academy of Forensic Science., Conference, (6th) 2012 (Hague, Netherlands)
• Contents: Preface -- SECTION I: Criminal soil forensics -- Soil traces: forensic examinations and legal context -- Chapter 1: Forensic palynology: Checking value of pollen analysis as a tool to identify crime scene in semiarid environments -- Chapter 2: Forensic Palynology: How pollen in dry grass can link to a crime scene -- Chapter 3: Geological analysis of soil and anthropogenic material. Three case studies -- Chapter 4: Forensic Soil Analysis: case study of looting at a Roman-Visigothic burial vault -- Chapter 5: Soil comparisons using small soil traces, a case report -- Chapter 6: Forensic comparison of soil samples -- Chapter 7: Reinstating soil examination as a trace evidence sub-discipline -- Chapter 8: Methodology of Forensic Soil Examination in Russia and a View on the World Standardization Process -- SECTION II: Environmental soil forensics -- Forensic tools for spatial and chemical analysis -- Chapter 9: Geographical Information Systems -- a working example in the Brazilian Federal Police for fighting environmental crime -- Chapter 10: Forensic characterization of gasoline releases impacting the environment -- Chapter 11: A general overview of pesticides in soil: Requirement of sensitive and current residue analysis methods -- SECTION III: Searches and burial sites -- A. Searches: co-operation, strategies and techniques -- Chapter 12: A study of pH as an influencing factor in the survival of human remains at sites investigated by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains -- Chapter 13: Interdisciplinary approaches to the search and location of buried bodies: a United Kingdom context -- Chapter 14: Forensic Geophysics: How the GPR technique can help with forensic investigations -- Chapter 15: Filter paper adsorption and ninhydrin reagent as presumptive test for gravesoil -- B. Decomposition and degradation processes -- Chapter 16: Changes in soil microbial activity following cadaver decomposition during spring and summer months in southern Ontario -- Chapter 17: Soil fauna and their effects on decomposition within coniferous and deciduous tree soil samples -- Chapter 18: Analysis of decomposition fluid collected from carcasses decomposing in the presence and absence of insects -- Chapter 19: Forensic analysis of volatile compounds from decomposed remains in a soil environment -- Chapter 20: GC×GC-TOFMS, the Swiss knife for VOC mixtures analysis in soil forensic investigations -- Chapter 21: An investigation of the degradation of polymeric grave goods in soil environments.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 346 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 631.4; Medicine; Soils -- Testing -- Congresses; Soils -- Composition -- Congresses; Soils -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses; Forensic sciences -- Congresses; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General; Forensic sciences; Soils -- Composition; Soils -- Environmental aspects; Soils -- Testing; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Social Science -- Criminology; Geology & the lithosphere; Soil science, sedimentology; Crime & criminology; Forensic medicine; Geology; Soil conservation; Criminology; Medical -- Forensic Medicine; Forensic science; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319331157; 3319331159; 3319331132; 9783319331133
• Related ISBNs: 9783319331133
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 21, 2016).
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