A 3500-year record of Hg and Pb contamination in a mediterranean sedimentary archive (The Pierre Blanche Lagoon, France)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8642-8647

  Elbaz Poulichet, F ^a   Dezileau, L ^a   Freydier, R ^a   Cossa, D ^b   Sabatier, P ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; COAL CONSUMPTION; COASTAL LAGOONS; CONTINUOUS SEDIMENTATION; GOLD AND SILVER; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG POLLUTION; LEAD CONCENTRATION; LEADED GASOLINE; LOW POLLUTION; MEDICAL USE; MONTPELLIER; PB CONTAMINATION; PB POLLUTION; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; METALS; POLLUTION DETECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE LAGOONS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

LEAD;

COAL; GASOLINE; MERCURY; PBC 264;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BURNING; COAL; COASTAL LAGOON; COMBUSTION; HISTORICAL RECORD; INCINERATION; LEAD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NINETEENTH CENTURY; ROMAN ERA; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; FRANCE; HISTORY; LAGOON; SEDIMENTATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; LEAD; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MERCURY;

FRANCE; HERAULT; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; PIERRE BLANCHE LAGOON;

EID: 80054711211     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2004599     Document Type: Article

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