Long-range transport of pollutants to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica: Evidence from lake sediment fly ash particle records

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 9881-9889

  Rose, Neil L ^a   Jones, Vivienne J ^a   Noon, Philippa E ^a   Hodgson, Dominic A ^b   Flower, Roger J ^a   Appleby, Peter G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ASH PARTICLES; AUSTRALIA; CIRCUMPOLAR REGIONS; COMBUSTION SOURCES; FALKLAND ISLANDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SVALBARD;

FLY ASH; FUELS; LAKES; LEAD;

CONTAMINATION;

FOSSIL FUEL;

COMBUSTION; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; CHILE; FLY ASH; LAKE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLLUTANT; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; COAL ASH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FALKLAND ISLANDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LAKES; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); LARSEMANN HILLS; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS;

EID: 84866419387     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3023013     Document Type: Article

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