Over three millennia of mercury pollution in the Peruvian Andes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8830-8834

  Cooke, Colin A ^a   Balcom, Prentiss H ^b   Biester, Harald ^c   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chav n; Cinnabar; Inca; Vermillion

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; LAKE; METAL EXTRACTION; MINERAL DUST; MINING; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; PERU;

EID: 67049132529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900517106     Document Type: Article

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