Environmental Contaminants : Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution - Blais, Jules M.; Rosen, Michael R.; Smol, John P.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
1. Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution -- 2. The influence of hydrology on lacustrine sediment contaminant records -- 3. The stability of metal profiles in freshwater and marine sediments -- 4. Calculating rates and dates and interpreting contaminant profiles in biomixed sediments -- 5. Contaminants in marine sedimentary deposits from coal fly ash during the Latest Permian Extinction -- 6. Lake sediment records of preindustrial metal pollution.  Colin Cooke and Richard Bindler --  7. Lacustrine archives of metals from mining and other industrial activities -- 8.  Organic pollutants in sediment core archives -- 9. Environmental archives of contaminant particles -- 10. Long range atmospheric transport in Arctic regions using lake sediments -- 11. Tracking long-range atmospheric transport of trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and organohalogen compounds using lake sediments of mountain regions -- 12. Tracking contaminant transport from biovectors -- 13. Using peat records as natural archives of past atmospheric metal deposition -- 14. Historical contaminant records from sclerochronological archives -- 15. Contaminant records in ice cores -- 16. Use of catalogued long-term biological collections and samples for determining changes in contaminant exposure to organisms.-Chapter 17. Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution: Some final thoughts and suggestions for future directions.
Keywords: Water pollution; Water quality; Environmental management; Hydrology; Environmental chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Hydrology/Water Resources; Environmental Chemistry; Ecotoxicology