Mercury dynamics in lake sediments

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 82, Issue , 2012, Pages 92-112

  Feyte, Stéphane ^a   Gobeil, Charles ^a   Tessier, André ^a   Cossa, Daniel ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; IRON; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ORGANIC CARBON; POREWATER; REACTION KINETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SULFATE; SULFUR; THERMODYNAMICS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA; LAKE TANTARE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 79960238799     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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