Magnitude of lead flux to the atmosphere from volcanoes

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Mar 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987gecoa..51..675p&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 51, Issue 3, pp.675-681

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Pb / S , Tl / S and Bi / S ratios were measured in eruptive and fumarolic volcanic gases and indexed to the global flux of volcanic S to characterize approximate global volcanic emissions of these three metals to the atmosphere, which are about 1200 tons Pb / yr , 600 tons Tl / yr , and 4000 tons Bi / yr . This volcanic Pb input is similar to the magnitude of natural soil dust Pb input, which is about 1400 tons Pb / yr during the Holocene Interglacial. Both are negligible compared to annual industrial inputs of ~ 300,000 tons Pb / yr which maintain the present tropospheric reservoir of Pb. However, polar ice records indicate that thousands of years ago the atmospheric Pb reservoir was only ~ 1% of its present size, which means that volcanic Pb was the source of about half the Pb in the atmosphere during preindustrial Holocene times.

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