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Radiocarbon Concentration of California Aerosols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Rainer Berger ,
David McJunkin  and
Roberta Johnson
Rainer Berger
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
David McJunkin
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
Roberta Johnson
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

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In this study the origin of the carbonaceous fraction of total suspended particles (TSP) in air was analyzed. While the summer data show increasing carbon concentrations in the Los Angeles air basin from west to east, in the winter high levels of carbon particles can be found over the coast. The smallest and most dangerous particle fraction is principally composed of fossil carbon.

Type
VI. Anthropogenic Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 661 - 667
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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