Tracing and quantifying anthropogenic mercury sources in soils of northern France using isotopic signatures

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1235-1242

  Estrade, Nicolas ^a,b   Carignan, Jean ^a   Donard, Olivier F X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b HELIOPARC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC REDUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TOPSOILS; ANTHROPOGENIC MERCURY; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; GEOGENIC; HG CONCENTRATIONS; ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN TOPSOILS;

CONTAMINATION; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

LEAD; MERCURY; ZINC; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; GEOGENIC SOURCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOBILITY; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; TOPSOIL; URBAN REGION; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; FRANCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACTIONATION; PROCEDURES; SOIL POLLUTANT;

FRANCE;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; MERCURY ISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79951589566     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1026823     Document Type: Article

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