Planktonic foraminifera record oceanic conditions in their shell geochemistry. Many palaeoenvironmental studies have used fossil planktonic foraminifera to constrain past seawater properties by defining species based on their shell morphology. Recent genetic studies, however, have identified ecologically distinct genotypes within traditionally recognized morphospecies, signaling potential reper...

The prevalence of endemic goitre is extremely high in certain parts of Sri Lanka where rates as high as 44% have been observed. With nearly 10 million people at risk the aetiology of endemic goitre in Sri Lanka needs to be clearly ascertained. The endemic goitre belt of Sri Lanka coincides with the wet climatic zone, indicating an apparent relationship of iodine geochemistry with climatic facto...

Article history: Stable isotope geochemistry Received 15 March 2008 Received in revised form 29 May 2008 Accepted 4 June 2008 Available online 30 June 2008

0022-1694/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.036 * Corresponding author at: US Geological Survey, 1505 Ferguson Lane, Austin, TX 78754, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Musgrov A two and a half year study of two adjacent watersheds at the Honey Creek State Natural Area (HCSNA) in central Texas was undertaken to evaluate spatial and tempora...

A 4-yr study of spatial and temporal variability in the geochemistry of vadose groundwaters from caves within the Edwards aquifer region of central Texas offers new insights into controls on vadose groundwater evolution, the relationship between vadose and phreatic groundwaters, and the fundamental influence of soil composition on groundwater geochemistry. Variations in Sr isotopes and trace el...

An urban survey of Lisbon, the largest city in Portugal, was carried out to investigate its environmental burden, emphasizing metallic elements and their public health impacts. This paper examines the geochemistry of lead (Pb) and its influence on human health data. A total of 51 soil samples were collected from urban recreational areas used by children to play outdoors. The semi-quantitative a...

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Lacustrine record of marine aerosol input has rarely been documented. Here, we present the sulfur geochemistry during the last deglaciation and early Holocene of a sediment core retrieved from the Dongyuan Lake in southern Taiwan. An unusually high sulfur peak accompanying pyrite presence is observed at 10.5 ka BP. Such high sulfur content in lacustrine record is unusual. The δ34S of sulfur var...

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