New insights into heavy metal elements deposition in the snowpacks of mountain glaciers in the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Atmospheric heavy metals have important environmental and health threats. To investigate atmospheric deposition and contamination of heavy metal elements in the glaciers of the eastern Tibetan Plateau (ETP), we collected the surface snow (cryoconites) samples in the Lenglongling Glacier (LG), the Ga...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyu Jiao, Zhiwen Dong, Shichang Kang, Yifan Li, Cong Jiang, Masoud Rostami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651320310666