Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005gecoa..69.3199g&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 69, Issue 13, p. 3199-3210.
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Scientific paper
The depth-distribution of lead and its stable isotope ratios were determined in a dated sediment core from a Canadian Shield lake receiving anthropogenic Pb inputs exclusively from atmospheric deposition. The results demonstrate that anthropogenic Pb deposited to the sediments of this lake since the preindustrial period can be modeled successfully using as little as two isotopically distinct Pb types. The first, whose flux was not detectable before 1850, reached a maximum value around 1950, and then decreased significantly thereafter; it was characterized by 206Pb/207Pb and 206Pb/208Pb ratios of 1.222 and 0.495, respectively, and was derived mainly from coal combustion. The second, whose flux was not detectable before 1880, increased sharply to exceed that of the Pb type derived from coal combustion around 1930, and reached a maximum in the mid 1970s; it is characterized by 206Pb/207Pb and 206Pb/208Pb ratios of 1.179 and 0.482, respectively, and was derived mainly from leaded gasoline combustion and industrial sources. The chronology of deposition of these two anthropogenic lead types agrees well with the historical records of fossil fuel uses in Canada and the USA, and also with the history of sediment-deposited polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) originating from coal combustion. The inventory of Pb derived from coal combustion (0.09 μmol cm-2) is ˜30% of that derived mainly, but not exclusively, from leaded gasoline (0.31 μmol cm-2). Apportionment among source regions of lead deposited to the sediments during the period when leaded gasoline dominated Pb atmospheric emissions indicates that ˜50% of this lead originated in the USA.
Beaudin Luc
Gallon Céline
Gobeil Charles
Tessier André
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