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Atmospheric Pollution in Beijing, China, as Recorded in Sediments of the Summer Palace Lake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Mao Mei Zhou ,
Liu Jing Yi ,
Kathe K. Bertine ,
Minoru Koide  and
Edward D. Goldberg
Mao Mei Zhou
Affiliation:
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 939, Beijing, China
Liu Jing Yi
Affiliation:
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 939, Beijing, China
Kathe K. Bertine
Affiliation:
San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Minoru Koide
Affiliation:
Ocean Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Edward D. Goldberg
Affiliation:
Ocean Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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The fluxes of heavy-metals, and the fly-ash component magnetite from coal-burning, to sediments of the Lake of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China, have increased measurably over the last fifty years. The excess metal contents and the magnetite are attributed to the combustion of coal.

Even with a doubling of coal usage by the year AD 2000. the anthropogenic metal fluxes in Beijing, China, will still be less than those recorded for recent times in metropolitan Tokyo and US lakes. In principle, these fluxes can be reduced by the installation of appropriate emission controls at the coal-burning facilities.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1989 , pp. 233 - 236
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1989

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