Lead (Pb) isotopic analyses proved to be a very efficient tool for tracing the sources of local
and global Pb pollution. This review presents an overview of literature published on the use …

Industrialism has brought a long series of benefits for modern civilization. Concomitantly,
reversible and irreversible changes have been inflicted upon the environment, affecting …

The popular concept of enrichment factors (EFs) as a means of identifying and quantifying
human interference with global element cycles is evaluated. It is demonstrated that the …

The concentrations and chemical partitioning of heavy metals in the sediment cores of the
Pearl River Estuary were studied. Based on Pearson correlation coefficients and principal …

Tracing the source of heavy metals in the environment is of key importance for our
understanding of their pollution and natural cycles in the surface Earth reservoirs. Up to now …

In lake sediment investigations of heavy metal pollution history, it has become a common
approach to calculate enrichment factors (EFs) by normalizing elemental distributions to a …

A 650 cm core from a Swiss bog represents 12,370 14C years of peat accumulation and
provides the first complete record of atmospheric Pb deposition for the entire Holocene …

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 …

In order to gain insight into Pb pollution of soils, a Pb isotope study was performed on soil
profiles from selected sites in Switzerland. Samples were analysed from the Swiss National …

Increasing consciousness about future sustainable agriculture and hazard free food
production has lead organic farming to be a globally emerging alternative farm practice. We …