Silver and lead in high-altitude lake sediments: Proxies for climate changes and human activities

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 760-773

  Garçon, Marion ^a   Chauvel, Catherine ^a   Chapron, Emmanuel ^b   Faïn, Xavier ^c   Lin, Mingfang ^a   Campillo, Sylvain ^a   Bureau, Sarah ^a   Desmet, Marc ^d   Bailly Maître, Marie Christine ^e   Charlet, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; CATCHMENT AREA; CHEMICAL CHANGE; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FRENCH ALPS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LONG-TERM CHANGES; ORGANIC-RICH SEDIMENT; PB CONCENTRATION; PB ISOTOPES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LEAD; SILVER; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SHORE (NONMARINE); SILVER;

ALPS; FRANCE; ISERE; LAKE BLANC HUEZ; RHONE-ALPES;

EID: 84856609398     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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