Recent paleorecords document rising mercury contamination in Lake Tanganyika

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 352-359

  Conaway, Christopher H ^a   Swarzenski, Peter W ^a   Cohen, Andrew S ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; DEPOSITION PROFILES; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG FLUX; LAKE TANGANYIKA; LOCAL BIOMASS; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MERCURY ACCUMULATION; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; PLATFORM AREA; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RIVER DELTAS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHARCOAL; INDUSTRY; LAKES; LEAD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

MERCURY (METAL);

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHARCOAL; CORRELATION; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOACCUMULATION; LAKE POLLUTION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SHORELINE; WATERSHED;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

EID: 84855444892     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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