Thallium as a tracer for preindustrial volcanic eruptions in an ice core record from Illimani, Bolivia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 888-893

  Kellerhals, Thomas ^a,b   Tobler, Leon Hard ^b   Brütsch, Sabina ^b   Sigl, Michael ^a,b   Wacker, Lukas ^c   Gäggeler, Heinz W ^a,b   Schwikowski, Margit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CAPILLARY WALL; CONTINUOUS ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS METHODS; DISCRETE SAMPLE; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; ICE SHEET; ICP-SFMS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SECTOR FIELD MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY EFFECTS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SOUTH AMERICA; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THALLIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

THALLIUM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACIDIFICATION; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; THALLIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ACCURACY; ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; ICE CORE RECORD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RISK FACTOR; VOLCANO;

BOLIVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; ICE; THALLIUM; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

BOLIVIA; ILLIMANI; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA];

EID: 75749134903     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902492n     Document Type: Article

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