Sediment records of highly variable mercury inputs to mountain lakes in patagonia during the past millennium

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3443-3453

  Ribeiro Guevara, S ^a   Meili, M ^b   Rizzo, A ^a,c   Daga, R ^a,c   Arribere M ^a,d  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; LAKE MORENO OESTE; NAHUEL HUAPI NATIONAL PARK; RIO NEGRO [ARGENTINA];

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 77951031635     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-3443-2010     Document Type: Article

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