Identifying the origins of local atmospheric deposition in the steel industry basin of Luxembourg using the chemical and isotopic composition of the lichen Xanthoria parietina

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 405, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 338-344

  Hissler, Christophe ^a   Stille, Peter ^b   Krein, Andreas ^a   Geagea, Majdi Lahd ^b   Perrone, Thierry ^b   Probst, Jean Luc ^c   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b France and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie   (France)

^c Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Air contamination; Isotopic signatures; Lead; Lichen monitoring; Luxembourg; Neodymium; Rare Earth Elements (REE); Soils; Strontium

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BINARY ALLOYS; BLAST FURNACES; ELECTRIC FURNACES; FUNGI; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NEODYMIUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SOILS; STEEL SCRAP; STEELMAKING; STEELMAKING FURNACES; STRONTIUM;

AIR CONTAMINATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LUXEMBOURG; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; TRACE METAL ENRICHMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

LEAD; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; TRACE METAL;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; INCINERATION; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; LICHEN; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SOIL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE METAL; TRACER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FURNACE; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LICHEN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM]; WESTERN EUROPE;

XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

EID: 53149129801     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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