The history of airborne lead and other heavy metals as revealed from sediments of Lake Vähä-Pitkusta, SW Finland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 19-30

  Hakala, Anu ^a   Salonen, Veli Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne pollutants; Deposition; Environmental geology; Finland; Heavy metals; Holocene; Lake sediments; Lake V h Pitkusta; Lead; Pollution; Somero

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

ROMAN;

EID: 17044419676     PISSN: 03675211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17741/bgsf/76.1-2.002     Document Type: Article

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