Use and legacy of mercury in the Andes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4181-4188

  Cooke, Colin A ^a,f   Hintelmann, Holger ^b   Ague, Jay J ^a   Burger, Richard ^a   Biester, Harald ^c   Sachs, Julian P ^d   Engstrom, Daniel R ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e ST CROIX WATERSHED RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS; EFFICIENT PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE SEDIMENT CORES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; PRE-HISPANIC CULTURES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METALS; POLLUTION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; CINNABAR; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; PIGMENT; PREHISTORIC; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ISOTOPES; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; PERU; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANDES; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PERU;

EID: 84877628783     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3048027     Document Type: Article

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