Long-range transport of pollutants to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica: evidence from lake sediment fly ash particle records

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Rose, Neil L., Jones, Vivienne J., Noon, Philippa E., Hodgson, Dominic A., Flower, Roger J., Appleby, Peter G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Chemical Society 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Svalbard; South Orkney Islands; Larsemann Hills; Island Lakes; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19704/; http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3023013

210Pb-dated sediment cores taken from lakes on the Falkland Islands, the South Orkney Islands, and the Larsemann Hills in Antarctica were analyzed for fly ash particles to assess the temporal record of contamination from high temperature fossil-fuel combustion sources. Very low, but detectable, leve...