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Environmental Contaminants : Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Blais, Jules M. (Editor), Rosen, Michael R. (Editor), Smol, John P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 18
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.