Chronicling a century of lead pollution in Mexico: Stable lead isotopic composition analyses of dated sediment cores

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 764-770

  Soto Jimenez, Martin F ^a,b   Hibdon, Sharon A ^a   Rankin, Charley W ^a   Aggarawl, Jugdeep ^a   Ruiz Fernandez, A Carolina ^b   Paez Osuna, Federico ^b   Flegal, A Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONES; COMPOSITION; ESTUARIES; GASOLINE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLLUTION;

COASTAL ESTUARIES; LEAD ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; SEDIMENT CORES; TETRAETHYL LEAD;

SEDIMENTS;

GASOLINE; LEAD; LEAD 204; LEAD 206; LEAD 207; LEAD 208; TETRAETHYLLEAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDITIVES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONES; COMPOSITION; ESTUARIES; GASOLINE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ESTUARY; LAKE; MEXICO; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAMPLING; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MEXICO; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MEXICO CITY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 32344436662     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048478g     Document Type: Article

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