Sampling of Glacial Snow for Pesticide Analysis on the High Plateau Glacier of Mount Logan

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Stengle, Thomas R., Lichtenberg, James J., Houston, Charles S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1973
• Subjects: Arctic medicine; Biochemistry; Ethnobotany; Medicines; Native peoples; Plants (Biology); Traditional knowledge; Arctic; Canada; Coleman; Mount Logan; Yukon; glacier*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65985

Recently there have been a number of attempts to determine the presence of pollutants in remote areas of the world. The snow of glaciers is a particularly interesting subject for such work, since it contains a record of past years as well as the present. . Such pollutants are transported by the atmo...