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Author : Doubleday, N.C.; Douglas, M.S.; and Smol, J.P.
Date : 2000.
Title : Combustion profiles from Arctic sites: evidence of anthropogenic effects.
Publication : American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, May 30-June 3, 2000.
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Abstract
The occurrence of combustion particles in lake sediments is evidence of deposition and in some cases, transport, of materials resulting from natural and anthropogenic combustion processes. Diatoms have proven to be sensitive indicators of environmental change in the arctic and subarctic. Application of combustion particle studies to interpretation of high arctic diatom profiles using combustion particles to document emissions related to industrialization and to wildfire offers a means of discriminating anthropogenic influences which may have implications for climate from natural processes which may be climate and/or ecosystem dependent. Ecosystem effects manifested in the diatom record are interpreted as related to climate, but examination of the combustion particle record confirms the presence of patterns of combustion particles like those present in temperate regions.
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