Isotopic signatures for natural versus anthropogenic Pb in high-altitude Mt. Everest ice cores during the past 800years

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 412-413, Issue , 2011, Pages 194-202

  Lee, Khanghyun ^a   Hur, Soon Do ^a   Hou, Shugui ^b,c   Burn Nunes, Laurie J ^d   Hong, Sungmin ^e   Barbante, Carlo ^f   Boutron, Claude F ^g   Rosman, Kevin J R ^d  

^a Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Inha University   (South Korea)

^f CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^g UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic Pb contamination; Ice cores; Leaded gasoline; Mt. Everest; Pb isotopes; South Asia

Indexed keywords

ICE CORES; LEADED GASOLINE; MT. EVEREST; PB CONTAMINATION; PB ISOTOPES; SOUTH ASIA;

DUST; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GASOLINE; ICE; ISOTOPES;

LEAD;

FOSSIL FUEL; GASOLINE; ISOTOPE; LEAD;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONOLOGY; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ICE CORE RECORD; INDIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERAL DUST; NEPAL; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASOLINE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIBET; TIME FACTORS;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST; SAHARA;

EID: 84855841168     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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