Historical change of mercury pollution in remote Yongle archipelago, South China Sea

Chemosphere

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 549-556

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Xu, Liqiang ^a   Chen, Qianqian ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^b   Yan, Hong ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Luo, Yuhan ^a   Huang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic Hg flux; Hg pollution; Ornithogenic sediments; South China Sea; Yongle archipelago

Indexed keywords

MILITARY OPERATIONS; POLLUTION;

HG FLUX; HG POLLUTION; ORNITHOGENIC SEDIMENTS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YONGLE ARCHIPELAGO;

DEPOSITION;

MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METALLURGY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECONOMIC RECESSION; HISTORY; METALLURGY; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; WAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84862802251     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.12.065     Document Type: Article

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