Mercury isotope signatures in contaminated sediments as a tracer for local industrial pollution sources

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 177-185

  Wiederhold, Jan G ^a   Skyllberg, Ulf ^b   Drott, Andreas ^b   Jiskra, Martin ^a   Jonsson, Sofi ^c   Björn, Erik ^c   Bourdon, Bernard ^a,d   Kretzschmar, Ruben ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; POLLUTION; POSITIVE IONS; SEDIMENTS;

CHLOR-ALKALI INDUSTRY; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CONTAMINATED SITES; FRACTIONATION PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

ISOTOPES;

MERCURY; TRACER; ISOTOPE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; FRACTIONATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTION; REACTION TIME; SEDIMENT; SWEDEN; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

SWEDEN;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRY; ISOTOPES; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY ISOTOPES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84924067718     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5044358     Document Type: Article

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