Accumulation rates and predominant atmospheric sources of natural and anthropogenic Hg and Pb on the Faroe Islands

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Shotyk, W., Goodsite, M.E., Roos-Barraclough, F., Givelet, N., Le Roux, G., Weiss, D., Cheburkin, A.K., Knudsen, K., Heinemeier, J., van der Knaap, Willem Oscar, Norton, S.A., Lohse, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science 2005
• Subjects: 580 Plants (Botany); Canada; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Monolith
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/73965/1/Geochimica.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/73965/

A monolith representing 5420 14C yr of peat accumulation was collected from a blanket bog at Myrarnar, Faroe Islands. The maximum Hg concentration (498 ng/g at a depth of 4.5 cm) coincides with the maximum concentration of anthropogenic Pb (111 μg/g). Age dating of recent peat accumulation using 210...