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A global assessment of natural sources of atmospheric trace metals [1]

A proper inventory of atmospheric emissions from natural sources is basic to our understanding of the atmospheric cycle of the trace metals (and metalloids), and is also needed for assessing the extent of regional and global pollution by toxic metals1. It is generally presumed that the principal natural sources of trace metals in the atmosphere are wind-borne soil particles, volcanoes, seasalt spray and wild forest fires2–6.

Publication Date: 
02/03/1989
Jerome O. Nriagu [2]
Nature [3]
338
47-49
Tags:
Heavy Metals [4], Atmosphere [5], Industrial Pollution [6], Forests [7], Aerosols [8], Amazon [9], United States Of America (US) [10], Forest Fires [11], Global [12]
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