Atmospheric chemistry: Cool mercury
It is unclear whether the modern processes of mercury cycling such as mercury deposition in polar regions operated before anthropogenic emissions. Ice-core records from Antarctica now reveal strikingly high mercury concentrations during the coldest glacial periods.
| Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/20510/ https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo560 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.32866 |
| Summary: | It is unclear whether the modern processes of mercury cycling such as mercury deposition in polar regions operated before anthropogenic emissions. Ice-core records from Antarctica now reveal strikingly high mercury concentrations during the coldest glacial periods. |
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