Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

During the past two centuries metal loads in the Earth's atmosphere and ecosystems have
increased significantly over pre-industrial levels. This has been associated with deleterious …

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into
present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and …

In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the
Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of …

Atmospheric deposition of large-scale lead pollution has occurred for at least 3000 years in
Europe. Metal production and smelting were the main sources until the twentieth century …

Two sedimentary cores in the Minjiang River estuary (SE China) are documented for grain
size, clay minerals, heavy metals, magnetic parameters and Pb isotopes to investigate the …

Mercury concentrations are clearly elevated in the surface and sub-surface layers of peat
cores collected from a minerotrophic (“groundwater-fed”) fen in southern Greenland (GL) …

Adopting recently developed clean laboratory techniques, antimony (Sb) and scandium (Sc)
deposition were measured in a 63.72 m-long ice core (1842–1996) and a 5 m deep snow pit …

A peat bog in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland, provides a continuous record of peat
accumulation since 12 370 14C yr BP. Periods of enhanced soil dust deposition (10 590 …

Biogeochemical processes in a forested tropical peat deposit and its record of past
atmospheric dust deposition were assessed using the vertical distribution of lithophilic and …