A 1500-year record of lead, copper, arsenic, cadmium, zinc level in Antarctic seal hairs and sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 371, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 252-257

  Yin, Xuebin ^a,b   Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Zhu, Renbin ^a   Xie, Zhouqing ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Anthropogenic source; Excrement; Heavy metal; Natural source; Seal hair

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GASOLINE; HEAVY METALS; SEDIMENTS; WEATHERING;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; EXCREMENT; NATURAL SOURCES; SEAL HAIR;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PINNIPED; WEATHERING; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTENT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEAL; SEDIMENT; WEATHERING;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CADMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HAIR; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; SEALS, EARLESS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

ANTARCTICA; FILDES PENINSULA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; NELSON ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 33750511906     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.07.022     Document Type: Article

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