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Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition

Nature volume 323, pages 222–225 (1986)Cite this article

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In order to assess current global lead atmospheric pollution, it is necessary to reconstruct the natural, pre-human atmospheric fluxes of this toxic heavy metal. The time variations of these fluxes over the past 27,000 years have been obtained from the analysis of an Antarctic ice core.

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  1. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences 170-25, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125, USA

    Claude F. Boutron & Clair C. Patterson

  2. Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement du CNRS, BP 96, 38402, Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex, France

    Claude F. Boutron

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Boutron, C., Patterson, C. Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition. Nature 323, 222–225 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323222a0

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