Mercury deposition/accumulation rates in the vicinity of a lead smelter as recorded by a peat deposit

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5968-5977

  Ettler, Vojtěch ^a   Navrátil, Tomáš ^b   Mihaljevič, Martin ^a   Rohovec, Jan ^b   Zuna, Milan ^a   Šebek, Ondřej ^a   Strnad, Ladislav ^a   Hojdová, Maria ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Deposition; Historical record; Mercury; Pb smelter; Peat deposit

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; LEAD; LEAD SMELTING;

ACCUMULATION RATES; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; MERCURY(III);

MERCURY (METAL);

LEAD; PEAT;

ACCUMULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOSS; PEAT; SMELTING; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CZECH REPUBLIC; MOSS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; VEGETATION;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 47549109758     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.03.047     Document Type: Article

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