Effects of historical and modern mining on mercury deposition in southeastern Peru

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 12715-12720

  Beal, Samuel A ^a   Jackson, Brian P ^a   Kelly, Meredith A ^a   Stroup, Justin S ^a   Landis, Joshua D ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURIES (HG); MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REMOTE REGIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

DEPOSITION;

LAKES;

MERCURY; GOLD;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARTICLE; LAKE SEDIMENT; MINING; PERU; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; LAKE; SEDIMENT;

PERU;

GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GOLD; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; LAKES; MERCURY; MINING; PERU;

EID: 84888249670     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402317x     Document Type: Article

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