A 15,800-year record of atmospheric lead deposition on the Devon Island Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada: Natural and anthropogenic enrichments, isotopic composition, and predominant sources

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Zheng, Jiancheng ^a,b   Shotyk, William ^b   Krachler, Michael ^b   Fisher, David A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CANADA; DEPOSITION; DUST; ISOTOPES; LEAD; SCANDIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL CRUST; DUST; ICE CORE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; DEVON ICE CAP; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548286498     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002897     Document Type: Article

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