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| Title |
Dendrochemistry of Multiple Releases of Chlorinated Solvents at a Former Industrial Site
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Environmental Science & Technology, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1021/es300318v |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jean Christophe Balouet, Joel G. Burken, Frank Karg, Don Vroblesky, Kevin T. Smith, Håkan Grudd, Anders Rindby, François Beaujard, Michel Chalot |
| Abstract |
Trees can take up and assimilate contaminants from the soil, subsurface, and groundwater. Contaminants in the transpiration stream can become bound or incorporated into the annual rings formed in trees of the temperate zones. The chemical analysis of precisely dated tree rings, called dendrochemistry, can be used to interpret past plant interactions with contaminants. This investigation demonstrates that dendrochemistry can be used to generate historical scenarios of past contamination of groundwater by chlorinated solvents at a site in Verl, Germany. Increment cores from trees at the Verl site were collected and analyzed by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) line scanning. The EDXRF profiles showed four to six time periods where tree rings had anomalously high concentrations of chlorine (Cl) as an indicator of potential contamination by chlorinated solvents. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Czechia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 50 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 11 | 22% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 23 | 45% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Engineering | 2 | 4% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 15 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2012.
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#17,236,655
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science & Technology
#16,787
of 20,675 outputs
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#123,776
of 186,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science & Technology
#164
of 258 outputs
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