Franklin expedition lead exposure: New insights from high resolution confocal x-ray fluorescence imaging of skeletal microstructure

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Swanston, Treena, Varney, Tamara L., Kozachuk, Madalena, Choudhury, Sanjukta, Bewer, Brian, Coulthard, Ian, Keenleyside, Anne, Nelson, Andrew, Martin, Ronald R., Stenton, Douglas R., Cooper, David M. L., Reddy, Sakamuri V.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Arctic; Northwest Passage; Lancaster Sound; Barrow Strait; King William Island; William Island; Beechey Island; Simpson Strait; Back River; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1491202; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1491202; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202983

In the summer of 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, 128 officers and men aboard Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Lancaster Sound and entered the waters of Arctic North America. The goal of this expedition was to complete the discovery of a northwest passage by naviga...