The history of airborne lead and other heavy metals as revealed from sediments of Lake Vähä-Pitkusta, SW Finland

Lake Vähä-Pitkusta is a small, sheltered, relative deep and undisturbed lake in SW Finland. It was cored to investigate airborne deposition of heavy metals, which is not known in detail in this area. We analysed lake sediments to detect trends in the historical load of lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, n...

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Main Authors: A. Hakala, V.-P. Salonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of Finland 2004-12-01
Series:Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
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Online Access:http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume76/Hakala.pdf