Dust-mediated loading of trace and major elements to Wasatch Mountain snowpack

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 432, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-77

  Carling, Gregory T ^a   Fernandez, Diego P ^a   Johnson, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; Dust chemistry; Mercury; Snow chemistry; Trace elements; Wasatch Mountains

Indexed keywords

ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; AEOLIAN DUSTS; DUST CHEMISTRY; DUST DEPOSITION; DUST EVENT; DUST PARTICLE; ELEMENT CHEMISTRY; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK; SAMPLE COLLECTION; SEASONAL SNOWPACK; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW CHEMISTRY; SNOW SAMPLES; TRACE ELEMENT ACCUMULATION; WASATCH MOUNTAINS;

ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CHLORINE; CHROMIUM; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTS; SNOW; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DUST;

ALUMINUM; ANION; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CATION; CHLORIDE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; NITRATE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFATE; THALLIUM; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SNOWPACK; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH RANGE;

EID: 84862263847     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.077     Document Type: Article

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