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Unequal anthropogenic enrichment of mercury in Earth's northern and southern hemispheres

Authors :
Li, Chuxian
Sonke, Jeroen
Le Roux, Gaël
Piotrowska, Natalia
Van Der Putten, Nathalie
Roberts, Stephen
Daley, Tim
Gehrels, Roland
Enrico, Maxime
Mauquoy, Dmitri
De Vleeschouwer, François
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
De Vleeschouwer, François
Source :
14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Sep 2019, Cracovie, Poland
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2019.

Abstract

International audience; Northern hemisphere (NH) perturbation of the natural mercury (Hg) cycle has been extensively studied from peat, ice and sediment cores, and by Hg emission driven box models. Radiocarbon-dated peat and sediment archives in the NH document median 5 (n=14) and 6 (n=5) fold increases in Hg accumulation rates (HgAR) from pre-mining (

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Sep 2019, Cracovie, Poland
Accession number :
edsair.dedup.wf.001..7117cb9892f53759754acc7638ea9520