Lake sediment evidence for long-range air pollution on the Tibetan Plateau

This project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, used ²¹⁰Pb dated lake sediment cores to assess the historical records of atmospherically deposited pollutants in lakes taken along a transect across the Tibetan Plateau. This project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, used ²¹⁰Pb dated lake sediment cores to assess the historical records of atmospherically deposited pollutants in lakes taken along a transect across the Tibetan Plateau.

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Environmental Change Research Group

Publications

• Yang, H., Battarbee, R.W., Turner, S.D., Rose, N.L., Derwent, R.G., Wu, G and Yang R. (2010). Historical reconstruction of mercury pollution across the Tibetan Plateau using lake sediments. Environmental Science & Technology 44: 2918-2924.
• Wang, X., Yang, H., Gong, P., Zhao, X., Wu, G., Turner, S., Yao, T. (2010) One century sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, mercury and trace elements in the Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Pollution. 158: 3065-3070.