Refining the pre-industrial atmospheric Pb isotope evolution curve in Europe using an 8000 year old peat core from NW Spain

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 467-485

  Kylander, Malin E ^a,b   Weiss, D J ^a,b   Martinez Cortizas A ^c   Spiro, B ^b   Garcia Sanchez, R ^b   Coles, B J ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Climate; Ombrotrophic peat; Pb isotopes; Pollution; Saharan aridification; Spain

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC LEAD ISOTOPE EVOLUTION; OMBROTROPHIC PEAT; PEAT CORE; PRE-POLLUTION AEROSOL; SPAIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ISOTOPES; LEAD; LITHOLOGY; PEAT; ROCKS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LEAD ISOTOPE; PEAT; SEDIMENT CORE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 28044464246     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.024     Document Type: Article

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