Natural mercury isotope variation in coal deposits and organic soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8303-8309

  Biswas, Abir ^a,b   Blum, Joel D ^a   Bergquist, Bridget A ^a,c   Keeler, Gerald J ^a   Xie, Zhouqing ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL RESEARCH; EARTH SCIENCES; ISOTOPES; MERCURY DEPOSITS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; EARTH'S SURFACES; HG POLLUTIONS; ISOTOPE VARIATIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC FINGERPRINTS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; KAZAKHSTAN; NATURAL MERCURIES; NEW TOOLS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC SOILS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; POINT SOURCES; UNITED STATES;

MERCURY (METAL);

COAL; MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC SOIL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHINA; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

COAL; HUMANS; INCINERATION; MERCURY ISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KAZAKHSTAN; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES; WEST ASIA;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; EARTH'S SURFACE; HG POLLUTION; ISOTOPE VARIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; NATURAL MERCURY; ORGANIC SOIL; POINT SOURCES;

EID: 56449101058     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801444b     Document Type: Article

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