Lead isotopic and metallic pollution record in tree rings from the copperbelt mining-smelting area, Zambia

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 216, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 657-668

  Mihaljevič, Martin ^a   Ettler, Vojtěch ^a   Šebek, Ondřej ^a   Sracek, Ondra ^b,e   Kříbek, Bohdan ^c   Kyncl, Tomáš ^d   Majer, Vladimír ^c   Veselovský, František ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b OPV sro ^*  (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^d Moravian Dendro Labor   (Czech Republic)

^e PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Copper; Lead; Pb isotopes; Soils; Tree rings; Zambia

Indexed keywords

CO CONTENT; COPPERBELT; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MATERIAL PROCESSING; METALLIC POLLUTION; MN CONTENT; PB ISOTOPES; PLANT LITTER; POTENTIAL SOURCES; ROOT UPTAKE; SOIL COMPOSITION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; TREE RINGS; TREE SPECIES; ZAMBIA;

ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COBALT; COPPER; ISOTOPES; LEAD SMELTING; MANGANESE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

LEAD;

COBALT; COPPER; ISOTOPE; LEAD; MANGANESE; SULFUR OXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; BIOACCUMULATION; COBALT; HEAVY METAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANGANESE; MINING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; TREE RING;

ABSORPTION; ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BARK; BIOMASS; CONTAMINATION; MINING; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LITTER; PLANT ROOT; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TREE; ZAMBIA;

COPPERBELT; KITWE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 79951951630     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0560-4     Document Type: Article

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