The missing piece: Sediment records in remote mountain lakes confirm glaciers being secondary sources of persistent organic pollutants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-208

  Schmid, Peter ^a   Bogdal, Christian ^b   Blüthgen, Nancy ^c   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^d   Zwyssig, Alois ^d   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE LAKES; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; GLACIAL LAKES; HISTORICAL TRENDS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MELTING GLACIERS; MOUNTAIN LAKES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PROGLACIAL; SEDIMENT CORE; SWITZERLAND;

AIR POLLUTION; CATCHMENTS; GLACIERS; LAKES; MELTING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DICHLORODIPHENYL TRICHLOROETHANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DDT; GLACIAL LAKE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; HYDROLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEDIMENTATION; SWITZERLAND; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SWITZERLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; OBERAARSEE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78650710704     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1028052     Document Type: Article

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