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Pollution of lakes and rivers : a paleoenvironmental perspective
- Title
- Pollution of lakes and rivers : a paleoenvironmental perspective / John P. Smol.
- Author
- Smol, J. P. (John P.)
- Publication
- London : Arnold, 2002.
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- Description
- xxiv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Key issues in environmental change
- Uniform Title
- Key issues in environmental change.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- There is no substitute for water -- How long is long? -- Sediments : an ecosystem's memory -- Retrieving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock : collecting and dating sediment cores -- Reading the records stored in sediments : the present is a key to the past -- The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone : calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets -- Acidification : finding the 'smoking gun' -- Metals, technological development, and the environment -- Persistent organic pollutants industrially synthesized chemicals 'hopping' across the planet -- Mercury : 'the metal that slipped away' -- Eutrophication : the environmental consequences of over-fertilization -- Erosion : tracking the accelerated movement of material from land to water -- Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations -- Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming : the problems of multiple stressors -- New problems, new challenges.
- ISBN
- 0340741465
- 0340691670 (PBK.)
- OCLC
- ocm41659800
- SCSB-4331342
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries