Dual-core mass-balance approach for evaluating mercury and 210Pb atmospheric fallout and focusing to lakes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-32

  Van Metre, Peter C ^a   Fuller, Christopher C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC FALLOUTS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DUAL CORES; GLOBAL HG EMISSIONS; HIGH ALTITUDES; ICE CORES; IN CORES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MASS BALANCES; MASS-BALANCE EQUATIONS; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; MODEL RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SOIL CORES; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; FALLOUT; FOCUSING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMPURITIES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATERSHEDS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

LEAD 210; MERCURY; FRESH WATER; LEAD;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CORE ANALYSIS; FALLOUT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); WATERSHED;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; SEDIMENT; WATERSHED; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

HOBBS LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ATMOSPHERE; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRIC DATING; WYOMING;

EID: 61849120769     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801490c     Document Type: Article

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