Measurement of Lead Isotopes in Snow and Ice from Law Dome and other sites in Antarctica to characterize the Lead and seek evidence of its origin

• Main Author: Vallelonga, Paul Travis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Curtin University 2002
• Subjects: polar; lead contamination; ice cores; analytical blank; sulfer emissions; Pb; bismuth; lead; pollution; filter sampling; thermal ionisation mass spectrometry; Antarctica; barium; Law Dome; ice; volcanism; aerosols; lead isotopes; pele's hair; Mount Erebus; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Antarc*; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2580

Human activities such as mining and smelting of lead (Pb) ores and combustion of alkyllead additives in gasoline have resulted in extensive global Pb pollution. Since the late 1960's studies of polar ice and snow have been undertaken to evaluate the extent of anthropogenic Pb emissions in recen...