Peat Bogs Document Decades of Declining Atmospheric 2 Contamination by Trace Metals in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands (original) (raw)

2 Contamination by Trace Metals in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands 3 Region 4 William Shotyk,*,† Peter G Appleby,‡ Beatriz Bicalho,† Lauren Davies, Duane Froese, 5 Iain Grant-Weaver,† Gabriel Magnan, Gillian Mullan-Boudreau,† Tommy Noernberg,† Rick Pelletier,† 6 Bob Shannon, Simon van Bellen, and Claudio Zaccone 7 †Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 348B South Academic Building, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1 Canada 8 ‡Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom 9 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3 Canada 10 Deṕartement de Geógraphie, Universite ́ du Queb́ec a ̀ Montreál Montreál, Queb́ec H2 V 2B8 Canada 11 Quality Radioanalytical Support, LLC, 123 Cougar Trail, PO Box 774 Grand Marais, Minnesota 55604 United States 12 Department of the Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia Via Napoli, 71122 Foggia Italy