Late-Holocene atmospheric lead deposition in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 353-359

  Cooke, Colin A ^a,b   Abbott, Mark B ^a,c   Wolfe, Alexander P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Atmospheric lead deposition; Bolivia; Geoarchaeology; Lake sediments; Late Holocene; Metallurgy; Pb; Peru; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD; METALLURGY; MINING INDUSTRY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SMELTING;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58149377558     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607085134     Document Type: Article

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