Historical reconstruction of atmospheric lead pollution in central Yunnan province, southwest China: An analysis based on lacustrine sedimentary records

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8739-8750

  Liu, Enfeng ^a   Zhang, Enlou ^a   Li, Kai ^a,b   Nath, Bibhash ^c   Li, Yanling ^a   Shen, Ji ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Lacustrine sediment; Lead; Source; Southwest China; Temporal pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; ENRICHMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD; METALS INDUSTRY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

CHINA; FUXIAN LAKE; YUNNAN;

EID: 84891152363     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1861-0     Document Type: Article

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