Two thousand years of atmospheric arsenic, antimony, and lead deposition recorded in an ombrotrophic peat bog profile, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages E1-

  Shotyk, William ^a   Cheburkin, Andrij K ^b   Appleby, Peter G ^c   Fankhauser, Andreas ^a   Kramers, Jan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Atmosphere; Cores; Deposition; Lead; Peat bogs

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; LEAD; PEAT BOG;

SWITZERLAND, JURA;

EID: 0030437802     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00197-5     Document Type: Article

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