综述了环境磁学发展进程中与环境问题的相互联系,以及磁学在气候、土壤、湖泊、生物和环境污染领域的广泛应用。分析了环境磁学进一步发展的研究方向。指出环境磁学以解决环境问题为主要目标。环境磁学方法所具有的样品用量少,灵敏度高,简便快速,非破坏性,费用低等特点,为研究环境问题提供了新途径和新方法。随着人类对环境问题的不断重视,利用环境磁学来追踪污染物的起源以及土壤,湖泊沉积物等物源将是环境磁学服务社会的重要内容。
Environmental magnetism is chiefly aimed at solving environmental problems. Lots of researches were done and plenty of experience has been gained in reconstructing pollution history, monitoring present environmental pollution, tracing and separating the sources of pollution. With the advantage of fast, sensitive, inexpensive, non-destructive measurement, environmental magnetism can be used as a preliminary method for studying pollution effects before starting time consuming and expensive chemical methods. Principles and purposes of the magnetic method were introduced in different environmental systems. It also showed the relationship between environmental pollution and meaningful magnetic signals from intensive anthropogenic activities To further develop, however, new methods must be used to analyse and interpret the magnetic data, and other related subjects must be imported to the environmental magnetism.