The mercury isotope composition of Arctic coastal seawater

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 347, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 368-376

  Štrok, Marko ^a,b   Baya, Pascale Anabelle ^a   Hintelmann, Holger ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Hg isotope ratios; MC ICP MS; Seawater

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ION EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEAWATER;

CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84951194368     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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