Sediment records of highly variable mercury inputs to mountain lakes
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Sediment records of highly variable mercury inputs to mountain lakes in Patagonia during the past millennium S. Ribeiro Guevara, M. Meili, A. Rizzo, R. Daga, and M. Arribére Laboratorio de Análisis por Activación Neutrónica, Comisión Nacional de Energı́a Atómica, Centro Atómico Bariloche, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas y Técnicas, Rivadavia 1917, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina
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تاریخ انتشار 2009