Environmental contaminants : using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution / Jules M. Blais, Michael R. Rosen, John P. Smol, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blais, Jules M., editor.

Rosen, Michael R., 1961-2021, editor.

Smol, J. P. (John P.), editor.

Series:

Developments in paleoenvironmental research ; 1571-5299 v. 18.

Developments in paleoeenvironmental research, 1571-5299 ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolimnology.

Paleoecology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 509 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2015.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789401795401

9401795401

OCLC:

893456241