Deposited atmospheric chemicals

• Published in: Environmental science & technology Vol. 20; no. 9; pp. 847 - 853
• Main Author: Schell, W.R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 01.09.1986
• Subjects: AIR POLLUTION; Applied sciences; Atmospheric pollution; BOGS; CHEMICALS; CONTAMINACION DEL AIRE; CONTAMINANTES; Dispersed sources and other; ECOLOGIA FORESTAL; ECOLOGIE FORESTIERE; Exact sciences and technology; FOREST ECOLOGY; LOSSES; MARAIS; OLIGOELEMENT; OLIGOELEMENTOS; PEAT; PENNSYLVANIA; PENNSYLVANIE; PERDIDAS; PERTE; POLLUANT; POLLUTANTS; Pollution; POLLUTION ATMOSPHERIQUE; Pollution sources. Measurement results; PRODUCTOS QUIMICOS; PRODUIT CHIMIQUE; TOURBE; TRACE ELEMENTS; TREMEDAL; TURBA; Trace element; Atmospheric fallout; United States; America; Chronology; North America; Peat bog; Heavy metal; Pennsylvania
• ISSN: 0013-936X; 1520-5851
• DOI: 10.1021/es00151a001

The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing a series of severe ecological problems with forest decline; loss of fish in lakes, streams, and estuaries; and corrosion of monuments, buildings, and roads. These and associated problems were addressed at the International Symposium on Acidic Precipitation at Muskoka, Ont., in September 1985 and at the Hudson River Foundation Conference on Acidification and Anadromous Fish of Atlantic Estuaries in October 1985. Circumstantial evidence presented at these meetings pointed toward the deposition of atmospheric chemicals, especially nitric and sulfuric acids, but few quantitative measurements compared today's conditions with those occurring over the past 200 years.