Soluble trace elements and total mercury in Arctic Alaskan snow

Arctic

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 201-215

  Snyder Conn, Elaine ^a,b   Garbarino, John R ^c   Hoffman, Gerald L ^c   Oelkers, Alan ^d  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Point sources; Prudhoe Bay; Snow; Trace element concentrations

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SNOW; TRACE ELEMENT;

ALASKA; USA;

EID: 0030665858     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1102     Document Type: Article

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