Industrial-era lead and mercury contamination in southern Greenland implicates North American sources

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Pérez-Rodríguez, Marta, Silva-Sánchez, Noemí, Kylander, Malin E., Bindler, Richard, Mighall, Timothy M., Schofield, J. Edward, Edwards, Kevin J., Martínez Cortizas, Antonio
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.The North, University of Aberdeen.Geography & Environment
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Hg; Pb isotopes; peat; metal pollution; isotopic residuals; atmospheric deposition; G Geography (General); G1; Greenland; Thule
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/11142; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.041

We would like to thank Jesús R. Aboal (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) and Kjell Billström (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) for access to the laboratory facilities; Antonio Rodríguez López helped with laboratory work. This research was done under the framework of the projects CGL2010-20672 (Plan Nacional I+D+i, Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), R2014/001 and GPC2014-009 (Dirección Xeral I+D, Xunta de Galicia). The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the UK Leverhulme Trust Footprints on the Edge of Thule programme award for core collection and associated environmental research. Peer reviewed