Welcome to the new version of CaltechAUTHORS. Login is currently restricted to library staff. If you notice any issues, please email coda@library.caltech.edu
Published September 18, 1986 | public
Journal Article

Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition

Abstract

In order to assess current global lead atmospheric pollution, it is necessary to reconstruct the natural, pre-human atmospheric fluxes of this toxic heavy metal. The time variations of these fluxes over the past 27,000 years have been obtained from the analysis of an Antarctic ice core.

Additional Information

© 1986 Nature Publishing Group. Received 29 May; accepted 8 July 1986. We thank D. Settle for laboratory assistance and M. De Angelis and F. Batifol for selection of ice-core sections. This work was supported in the United States by NSF grant DPP-840-3490, and in France by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Ministère de l'Environnement, the Expeditions Polaires Françaises and the Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises.

Additional details

Created:
August 19, 2023
Modified:
October 26, 2023