Protocol to reconstruct historical contaminant loading to large lakes: The Lake Michigan sediment record of mercury

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 935-940

  Rossmann, Ronald ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CONTAMINANT LOADINGS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; LAKE MICHIGAN; LARGE LAKES; MERCURY FLUXES; MERCURY LOADINGS; MERCURY LOADS; POINT SOURCES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SEDIMENT CORE; TIME VARIATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; LAKES; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; LAKE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; LAKE SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT LAKES REGION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MERCURY; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 75749102984     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902307c     Document Type: Article

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