Mass-dependent and mass-independent variations in the isotope composition of mercury in a sediment core from a lake polluted by emissions from the combustion of coal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 417-418, Issue , 2012, Pages 189-203

  Jackson, Togwell A ^a   Muir, Derek C G ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Coal and fly ash; Heavy metals; Lake sediments; Mercury isotopes; Power plants

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC REACTIONS; CARRIER MOLECULES; CHEMICAL EVIDENCES; COAL-BURNING; COAL-BURNING POWER PLANTS; COMBUSTION OF COAL; GAS REACTION; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LIGAND FIELD; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; METAL BINDING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL ENZYMES; MICROFLORA; NATURAL PROCESS; POLLUTED SEDIMENTS; POWER-PLANT EMISSIONS; REACTIVE GASEOUS; SEDIMENT CORE; STABILISATION ENERGY; STABILITY CONSTANTS; TOXIC EFFECT; TOXIC POLLUTANTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARSENIC; COAL; COAL ASH; FLUE GASES; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FREE RADICALS; HEAVY METALS; ISOTOPES; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); METAL COMPLEXES; POLLUTION; POWER PLANTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

COAL COMBUSTION;

ARSENIC; FREE RADICAL; MERCURY;

ARSENIC; COAL; EMISSION; FLY ASH; HEAVY METAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; COAL POWER; COMBUSTION; ECOTOXICITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLY ASH; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE TRACING; LAKE SEDIMENT; METAL BINDING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; SASKATCHEWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84857031061     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.12.040     Document Type: Article

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