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Laser ablation ICP-MS analyses of tree-ring profiles in pine and birch from N Norway and NW Russia – a reliable record of the pollution history of the area?

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 Laser ablation ICP-MS analysis of tree rings provides a rapid and sensitive method for investigating element concentrations and fluctuations in trees along time profiles. Time profiles obtained from pine and birch trees from a strongly polluted area in northwest Russia and a slightly polluted area at the Norwegian-Russian border show that single trees behave rather individualistically in terms of heavy metal contents as observed in the yearly growth rings. The obtained profiles can not be linked to the pollution history of the area. No correlation between pollution levels of the soils and observed metal content in tree rings can be established.

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  1. Geological Institute, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany, , , , , , DE

    C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg

  2. Geological Survey of Norway, P. O. Box 3006, Lade, N-7002 Trondheim, Norway, , , , , , NO

    C. Reimann

  3. Central Kola Geological Expedition, Fersman St. 26, 184200 Apatity, Russia, , , , , , RU

    V. A. Pavlov

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  1. C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg
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Received: 6 September 1996 / Accepted: 18 November 1996

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Garbe-Schönberg, CD., Reimann, C. & Pavlov, V. Laser ablation ICP-MS analyses of tree-ring profiles in pine and birch from N Norway and NW Russia – a reliable record of the pollution history of the area?. Environmental Geology 32, 9–16 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002540050188

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