Atmospheric Sb in the Arctic during the past 16,000 years: Responses to climate change and human impacts

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; SCANDIUM;

AIR MASS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ANTIMONY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE CORE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SCANDIUM; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE; DEVON ISLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 44649176531     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002998     Document Type: Article

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