Pre-industrial accumulation of anthropogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in a blanket bog of the Iberian Peninsula

Environmental Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-43

  Pontevedra Pombal, Xabier ^a   Rey Salgueiro, Ledicia ^b   García Falcón, Mercedes S ^b   Martínez Carballo, Elena ^b   Simal Gándara, Jesús ^b   Martínez Cortizas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bog; Fire; Multiproxy interpretation; PAHs

Indexed keywords

BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; FLUORANTHENE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOACCUMULATION; BOG; PEATLAND;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLUORESCENCE; GOVERNMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METALLURGY; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; WETLANDS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84861682348     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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