Isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from North America to the subtropical North Atlantic gyre
International audience Lead isotope ratios have been measured in aerosols, seawater, and marine particles collected in 1990–1992 in the subtropical northeastern Atlantic Ocean as part of the JGOFS-EUMELI program. While the atmospheric input has unradiogenic 206Pb/207Pb ratios (1.158 ± 0.006), typica...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-02552917v1 2023-05-15T17:27:11+02:00 Isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from North America to the subtropical North Atlantic gyre Hamelin, B Ferrand, J.L. Alleman, L. Nicolas, Emmanuel Véron, A. Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre for Energy and Environment (CERI EE - IMT Nord Europe) Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai (IMT Nord Europe) Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT) Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai (IMT Lille Douai) Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT) Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Marines (LPCM) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 1997-10 https://hal.science/hal-02552917 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00242-1 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00242-1 hal-02552917 https://hal.science/hal-02552917 doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00242-1 ISSN: 0016-7037 EISSN: 0016-7037 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta https://hal.science/hal-02552917 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997, 61 (20), pp.4423-4428. ⟨10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00242-1⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 1997 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00242-1 2023-03-01T03:46:48Z International audience Lead isotope ratios have been measured in aerosols, seawater, and marine particles collected in 1990–1992 in the subtropical northeastern Atlantic Ocean as part of the JGOFS-EUMELI program. While the atmospheric input has unradiogenic 206Pb/207Pb ratios (1.158 ± 0.006), typical of the tradewinds bringing lead from European countries, all the samples collected in the water column have more radiogenic 206Pb/207Pb (from 1.170 to 1.196). This demonstrates that lead at the Eumeli sites contains a dominant input from American emissions, that has been circulated across the North Atlantic by the subtropical North Atlantic gyre. Using measurements in Sargasso Sea surface waters as an estimate of the isotopic composition of this input (206Pb/207Pb = 1.195 +/- 0.004), we calculate a contribution of 42–57% from America in these waters. This demonstrates that American emissions still dominated lead contamination over the North Atlantic in the early 1990s, in spite of the early reduction of leaded gasoline in the USA. These results also give new evidence of the equilibrium between dissolved and particulate phases during scavenging processes. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61 20 4423 4428 |
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International audience Lead isotope ratios have been measured in aerosols, seawater, and marine particles collected in 1990–1992 in the subtropical northeastern Atlantic Ocean as part of the JGOFS-EUMELI program. While the atmospheric input has unradiogenic 206Pb/207Pb ratios (1.158 ± 0.006), typical of the tradewinds bringing lead from European countries, all the samples collected in the water column have more radiogenic 206Pb/207Pb (from 1.170 to 1.196). This demonstrates that lead at the Eumeli sites contains a dominant input from American emissions, that has been circulated across the North Atlantic by the subtropical North Atlantic gyre. Using measurements in Sargasso Sea surface waters as an estimate of the isotopic composition of this input (206Pb/207Pb = 1.195 +/- 0.004), we calculate a contribution of 42–57% from America in these waters. This demonstrates that American emissions still dominated lead contamination over the North Atlantic in the early 1990s, in spite of the early reduction of leaded gasoline in the USA. These results also give new evidence of the equilibrium between dissolved and particulate phases during scavenging processes. |
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Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre for Energy and Environment (CERI EE - IMT Nord Europe) Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai (IMT Nord Europe) Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT) Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai (IMT Lille Douai) Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT) Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Marines (LPCM) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from North America to the subtropical North Atlantic gyre |
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Isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from North America to the subtropical North Atlantic gyre |
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Isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from North America to the subtropical North Atlantic gyre |
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isotopic evidence of pollutant lead transport from north america to the subtropical north atlantic gyre |
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