Search Results - "Vleeschouwer, Francois De"
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People, pollution and pathogens – Global change impacts in mountain freshwater ecosystems
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-05-2018)“…Mountain catchments provide for the livelihood of more than half of humankind, and have become a key destination for tourist and recreation activities…”
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Learning from the Past: Fires, Architecture, and Environmental Lead Emissions
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Emissions from pre-Hispanic metallurgy in the South American atmosphere
Published in PloS one (29-10-2014)“…Metallurgical activities have been undertaken in northern South America (NSA) for millennia. However, it is still unknown how far atmospheric emissions from…”
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Variation in methanotroph-related proxies in peat deposits from Misten Bog, Hautes-Fagnes, Belgium
Published in Organic geochemistry (01-12-2012)“…Methane emissions from peat bogs are strongly reduced by aerobic methane oxidising bacteria (methanotrophs) living in association with Sphagnum spp. Field…”
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Comment on “The biosphere: A homogeniser of Pb-isotope signals” by C. Reimann, B. Flem, A. Arnoldussen, P. Englmaier, T.E. Finne, F. Koller and Ø. Nordgulen
Published in Applied geochemistry (01-09-2008)“…Reimann et al. (2008) recently published a study on Pb-isotope signature along a 120 km long transect cutting the city of Oslo. Based on concentration but also…”
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Geochemical characterization (REE, Nd and Pb isotopes) of atmospheric mineral dust deposited in two maritime peat bogs from the St. Lawrence North Shore (eastern Canada)
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-07-2017)“…ABSTRACT Dust deposited on two ombrotrophic peat bogs (Baie and IDH bogs) of the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary north shore (Quebec) was geochemically…”
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Southern limit of the Patagonian Ice Sheet
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-12-2023)“…The southern limit of the Patagonian Ice Sheet at glacial maxima is poorly constrained due to a paucity of field data. This particularly applies to southern…”
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A peat core Hg stable isotope reconstruction of Holocene atmospheric Hg deposition at Amsterdam Island (37.8oS)
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (15-01-2023)“…Mercury (Hg) stable isotopes have been broadly used to investigate the sources, transformation and deposition of atmospheric Hg during the industrial era…”
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Development and application of high-resolution petrography on resin-impregnated Holocene peat columns to detect and analyse tephras, cryptotephras, and other materials
Published in Quaternary international (01-02-2008)“…We describe the potential for high-resolution detection, observation and chemical analysis of tephras and cryptotephras in freeze-dried and resin-impregnated…”
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High-resolution reconstruction of atmospheric deposition of trace metals and metalloids since AD 1400 recorded by ombrotrophic peat cores in Hautes-Fagnes, Belgium
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-07-2013)“…The objective of our study was to determine the trace metal accumulation rates in the Misten bog, Hautes-Fagnes, Belgium, and assess these in relation to…”
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Paleo±Dust: quantifying uncertainty in paleo-dust deposition across archive types
Published in Earth system science data (20-02-2024)“…Mineral dust aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere varied greatly on glacial–interglacial timescales. The greatest changes in global dust activity occurred…”
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Unequal Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury in Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Published in ACS earth and space chemistry (19-11-2020)“…Remote Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) lake sediment and peat records of mercury (Hg) deposition have shown a ×3 to ×5 Hg enrichment…”
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Late-glacial elevated dust deposition linked to westerly wind shifts in southern South America
Published in Scientific reports (01-07-2015)“…Atmospheric dust loadings play a crucial role in the global climate system. Southern South America is a key dust source, however, dust deposition rates remain…”
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Elevated dust deposition in Tierra del Fuego (Chile) resulting from Neoglacial Darwin Cordillera glacier fluctuations
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-10-2016)“…ABSTRACT Atmospheric mineral dust is intrinsically linked with climate. Although dust flux variability on glacial–interglacial timescales is well documented,…”
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6200 years of human activities and environmental change in the northern central Alps
Published in Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart (08-05-2019)“…In this study, we combine erosion and anthropogenic proxies (Ti, Pb) from calibrated portable XRF with pollen and radiocarbon chronologies in peat from mires…”
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A mass budget and box model of global plastics cycling, degradation and dispersal in the land-ocean-atmosphere system
Published in Microplastics and nanoplastics (19-12-2022)“…Since 1950 humans have introduced 8300 teragrams (Tg, 10 12 g, millions of metric tons) of plastic polymers into the Earth’s surface environment. Accounting…”
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Atmospheric lead and heavy metal pollution records from a Belgian peat bog spanning the last two millenia: Human impact on a regional to global scale
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-05-2007)“…Europe has been continuously polluted throughout the last two millennia. During the Roman Empire, these pollutions were mainly from ore extraction and smelting…”
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Quantitative WD-XRF calibration for small ceramic samples and their source material
Published in Geoarchaeology (01-05-2011)“…A wavelength‐dispersive X‐ray fluorescence (WD‐XRF) calibration is developed for small powdered samples (300mg) with the purpose of analyzing ceramic artifacts…”
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Roman road pollution assessed by elemental and lead isotope geochemistry in East Belgium
Published in Applied geochemistry (01-12-2008)“…The ability of inorganic geochemistry to record environmental change and especially human impact has been evidenced by several studies across Europe,…”
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Late-Holocene atmospheric dust deposition in eastern Canada (St. Lawrence North Shore)
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-01-2017)“…Dust deposition in two ombrotrophic peatlands (Baie and Ile du Havre peatland (IDH) bogs) of the Estuary and Gulf of the St. Lawrence in eastern Canada was…”
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