Comparison of mercury and zinc profiles in peat and lake sediment archives with historical changes in emissions from the Flin Flon metal smelter, Manitoba, Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 548-563

  Outridge, P M ^a   Rausch, N ^b,c   Percival, J B ^a   Shotyk, W ^b   McNeely, R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flin flon; Lake sediments; Mercury; Peat; Smelter; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC METAL DEPOSITION; CATCHMENT SOILS; DEPOSITED METAL; EMISSION REDUCTION; FLIN FLON; HISTORICAL CHANGES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MANITOBA; MANITOBA , CANADA; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL LEVELS; ON CURRENTS; OR FLUXES; PEAT CORES; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; POLLUTED SITES; SMELTER; STUDY SITES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; WET AND DRY; ZN DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTION; CATCHMENTS; EMISSION CONTROL; LAKES; LEACHING; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PEAT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SMELTING; ZINC;

LAKE POLLUTION;

MERCURY; ZINC;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PEAT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; LAKE SEDIMENT; LEACHING; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION KINETICS; SMELTER; WET DEPOSITION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MANITOBA; MERCURY; METALLURGY; SPHAGNOPSIDA; ZINC;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 78649841401     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.041     Document Type: Article

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