Natural and anthropogenic variations in atmospheric mercury deposition during the Holocene near Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 437-450

  Beal, Samuel A ^a   Kelly, Meredith A ^a   Stroup, Justin S ^a   Jackson, Brian P ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^b   Tapia, Pedro M ^c  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

lake sediment; mercury record; toxic metals; tropical climate

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LAKES; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY DEPOSITION; BACKGROUND LEVEL; LAKE SEDIMENTS; NATURAL SOURCES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SPATIAL EXTENT; TOXIC METALS; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

MERCURY (METAL);

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEDIMENT CORE;

CUZCO [PERU]; PERU; QUELCCAYA ICE CAP;

EID: 84899038365     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004780     Document Type: Article

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