Multiple site study of recent atmospheric metal (Pb, Zn and Cu) deposition in the NW Iberian Peninsula using peat cores

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5540-5549

  Olid, Carolina ^a   Garcia Orellana, Jordi ^a,b   Martínez Cortizas, Antonio ^c   Masqué, Pere ^a,b   Peiteado Varela, Eva ^c   Sanchez Cabeza, Joan Albert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dating; Metal pollution; Multiple core; Peat bogs; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION RATES; PEAT; POLLUTION; WETLANDS; ZINC;

DATING; METAL POLLUTION; MULTIPLE-CORE; PEAT BOGS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DATING METHOD; EMISSION INVENTORY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LEAD ISOTOPE; PEATLAND; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BURN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; MINING; PEATLAND; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

GALICIA [SPAIN]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LUGO [GALICIA]; SPAIN; XISTRAL MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77956873819     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.058     Document Type: Article

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