Siderophile metal fallout to Greenland from the 1991 winter eruption of Hekla (Iceland) and during the global atmospheric perturbation of Pinatubo

Chemical Geology

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 78-86

  Gabrielli, Paolo ^a,b   Barbante, Carlo ^a   Plane, John M C ^c   Boutron, Claude F ^d,e   Jaffrezo, Jean Luc ^d   Mather, Tamsin A ^f   Stenni, Barbara ^g   Gaspari, Vania ^a   Cozzi, Giulio ^a   Ferrari, Christophe ^d,e   Cescon, Paolo ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic emissions; Iridium; Meteoric smoke; Platinum; Snow; Volcanic emissions

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FALLOUT; IRIDIUM; PLATINUM; POLAR REGION; SEAWATER; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; SNOW; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL LUZON; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; HEKLA; ICELAND; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; NORTHERN EUROPE; PHILIPPINES; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMMIT; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 50449084623     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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