Anthropogenic mercury signals in lake sediments from southernmost Patagonia, Chile

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 445-446, Issue , 2013, Pages 126-135

  Hermanns, Yvonne Marie ^a   Biester, Harald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental archive; Lake sediments; Mercury pollution signal; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC MERCURY; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY FLUXES; CARBON AND NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHIVE; FLUX RATIO; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MERCURY ACCUMULATION; MERCURY POLLUTION; MINERAL SOILS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ORGANIC MATTER SOURCE; PATAGONIA; REMOTE REGIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EROSION; LAKES; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; ZIRCONIUM;

LAKE POLLUTION;

CARBON; LEAD 210; MERCURY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; ZIRCONIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL EROSION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHILE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; LAKE SEDIMENT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CHILE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LAKES; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

CHILE; PATAGONIA;

EID: 84872387294     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.034     Document Type: Article

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