Temporal variability and environmental availability of inorganic constituents in an antarctic marine sediment core from a polynya area in the Ross Sea

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 453-475

  Malandrino, Mery ^a   Mentasti, Edoardo ^a   Giacomino, Agnese ^a   Abollino, Ornella ^a   Dinelli, Enrico ^b   Sandrini, Silvia ^b   Tositti, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctic marine sediments; Fractionation; Metal; Pattern recognition; Polynya area

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC MARINE SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHEMOMETRICES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DIFFERENT PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITY; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; METAL DISTRIBUTIONS; METAL PATTERNS; NATURAL BACKGROUNDS; ROSS SEA; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TERRA NOVA BAYS; THREE-STEP SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRACTIONATION; INORGANIC MATTER; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; METAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLYNYA; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TERRA NOVA BAY;

EID: 77949353220     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: 10290486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772240903300147     Document Type: Article

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