Environmental Contaminants

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Environmental Contaminants is written by Jules M. Blais and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 940179541X (ISBN 10) and 9789401795418 (ISBN 13).

The human footprint on the global environment now touches every corner of the world. This book explores the myriad ways that environmental archives can be used to study the distribution and long-term trajectories of chemical contaminants. The volume first focuses on reviews that examine the integrity of the historic record, including factors related to hydrology, post-depositional diffusion, and mixing processes. This is followed by a series of chapters dealing with the diverse archives and methodologies available for long-term studies of environmental pollution, such as the use of sediments, ice cores, sclerochronology, and museum specimens.