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 isotope evidence for the importance of recycled fluids in collisional ore systems

B Xu, RS Yin, M Chiaradia, Z Miao, WL Griffin… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The sources of fluids and metals in porphyry systems of continental-collision settings are
poorly constrained. Mercury isotopes display unique mass-independent fractionation …

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 …

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 …

The assessment and remediation of mercury contaminated sites: A review of current approaches

CS Eckley, CC Gilmour, S Janssen, TP Luxton… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Remediation of mercury (Hg) contaminated sites has long relied on traditional approaches,
such as removal and containment/capping. Here we review contemporary practices in the …

Modelling the mercury stable isotope distribution of Earth surface reservoirs: Implications for global Hg cycling

R Sun, M Jiskra, HM Amos, Y Zhang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) stable isotopes are useful to understand Hg biogeochemical cycling because
physical, chemical and biological processes cause characteristic Hg isotope mass …

Identifying the sources and processes of mercury in subtropical estuarine and ocean sediments using Hg isotopic composition

R Yin, X Feng, B Chen, J Zhang… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
The concentrations and isotopic compositions of mercury (Hg) in surface sediments of the
Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and the South China Sea (SCS) were analyzed. The data …

Tracking the multiple Hg sources in sediments in a typical river-lake basin by isotope compositions and mixing models

L Mao, W Ren, X Liu, M He, C Lin, Y Zhong… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, total mercury (THg) contents and Hg isotope compositions in sediments were
investigated in the Lianxi River, Zijiang River and South Dongting Lake to identify and …

Mercury isotope study of sources and exposure pathways of methylmercury in estuarine food webs in the Northeastern US

SY Kwon, JD Blum, CY Chen, DE Meattey… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
We measured mercury (Hg) isotope ratios in sediments and various estuarine organisms
(green crab, blue mussel, killifish, eider) to investigate methylmercury (MMHg) sources and …