Mercury isotopes in earth and environmental sciences

JD Blum, LS Sherman… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Virtually all biotic, dark abiotic, and photochemical transformations of mercury (Hg) produce
Hg isotope fractionation, which can be either mass dependent (MDF) or mass independent …

Mercury stable isotopes for monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

SY Kwon, JD Blum, R Yin, MTK Tsui, YH Yang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minamata Convention on Mercury (MC) includes provisions for a global
monitoring program (GMP) and effectiveness evaluation (EE) to provide information on …

Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis

J Shen, R Yin, TJ Algeo, HH Svensen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The sources of isotopically light carbon released during the end-Triassic mass extinction
remain in debate. Here, we use mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopes from a pelagic …

Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean

M Jiskra, LE Heimbürger-Boavida, MM Desgranges… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Human exposure to toxic mercury (Hg) is dominated by the consumption of seafood 1, 2.
Earth system models suggest that Hg in marine ecosystems is supplied by atmospheric wet …

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

SE Grasby, W Shen, R Yin, JD Gleason… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary records from the northwest margin of Pangea and the Tethys show
anomalously high Hg levels at the latest Permian extinction boundary. Background δ202Hg …

Mercury isotope compositions across North American forests

W Zheng, D Obrist, D Weis… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Forest biomass and soils represent some of the largest reservoirs of actively cycling mercury
(Hg) on Earth, but many uncertainties exist regarding the source and fate of Hg in forest …

Recent developments in mercury stable isotope analysis

JD Blum, MW Johnson - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Isotopes was compiled before it was appropriate to include a chapter on mercury (Hg) stable
isotope geochemistry. At that time there were only a few papers on this new topic (Jackson …

Stable mercury isotope variation in rice plants (Oryza sativa L.) from the Wanshan mercury mining district, SW China

R Yin, X Feng, B Meng - Environmental science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
To study the sources and transformations of Hg in the rice plant (Oryza sativa L.), stable Hg
isotope variations in different tissues (foliage, root, stem, and seed) of rice which were …

Mass-dependent and-independent fractionation of mercury isotope during gas-phase oxidation of elemental mercury vapor by atomic Cl and Br

G Sun, J Sommar, X Feng, CJ Lin, M Ge… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
This study presents the first measurement of Hg stable isotope fractionation during gas-
phase oxidation of Hg0 vapor by halogen atoms (Cl•, Br•) in the laboratory at 750±1 Torr and …

Isotopic composition of atmospheric mercury in China: new evidence for sources and transformation processes in air and in vegetation

B Yu, X Fu, R Yin, H Zhang, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The isotopic composition of atmospheric total gaseous mercury (TGM) and particle-bound
mercury (PBM) and mercury (Hg) in litterfall samples have been determined at …