Geochemistry of lead

Nriagu, J.O. (ed.). 1978a. The Bio geochemistry of Lead in the Environment. Part A. Ecological Cycles. 

Wong, P.T.S., B.A. Silverberg, Y.K. Chau, and P.V. Hodson. 1978. Lead and the aquatic biota. Pages 279-342 in J.O. Nriagu (ed.). The Bio geochemistry of Lead in the Environment. PartB. Biological Effects. Elsevier/North Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam. 

The studies of °Pb- Ra systematics in the oceans have considerably enhanced our understanding of scavenging processes, particularly in the deep sea and the marine geochemistries of lead and its... 

Readers interested in previous studies of Pb in the environment are referred to the books by Nriagu [15], Boggess and Wixson [16], the Committee on Lead in the Human Environment [17], and Harrison and Laxen [18]. The chemistry and geochemistry of lead in the aquatic environment has been outlined in Refs. [19-21], and lead in soils in Refs. [22,23]. 

The greatest contribution to our knowledge of the environmental geochemistry of lead was made by Professor C.C. Patterson and his associates at the California Institute of Technology. An entire issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (vol. 58, No. 15, 1994) was devoted to Professor Patterson upon his retirement. The effect of environmental lead on public health was also considered in a major work on medical geochemistry edited by Selmus et al. (2005). 

Hattori, K. (1975) Geochemistry of ore deposition at the Yatani lead-zinc and gold-silver deposit in Japan. Econ. Geol, 70, 677-693. 

Harrison Brown understood enough about the geochemistry of uranium and meteorites to realize that the lead in iron meteorites should be primordial, unchanged since the solar system formed. So he went looking for a student familiar enough with mass spectroscopy to analyze the isotopes in the lead in ancient iron meteorites and in modern rocks. He found Patterson. 

Laidlaw, M.A. Filippelli, G.M. 2008. Resuspension of urban soils as a persistent source of lead poisoning in children A review and new directions. Applied Geochemistry. 2008, 23, 2021-2039. 

Ghosh, S., Thorpe, R.I., Ghosh, A.K. 1999. Lead and sulphur isotope geochemistry of galena from Sargipali sulphide deposit, Sundergarh, Orissa -Implications for ore genesis. Indian Journal of Earth Science, 26, 1-12. 

This volume was developed from the ACS symposium Geochemistry of Sulfur in Fossil Fuels, which encompassed a wide range of disciplines and subject areas and offered papers from leading research groups worldwide. The broad scope of the symposium makes evident the similarities and differences in the various fuel systems and reflects the current specific interest and the recent advances in understanding the multidisciplinary aspects of the sulfur cycle in the geosphere. In many respects, a geochemical focus helps make clear the reasons for variations in the sulfur system in different fossil fuels. 

So far, the only available technique capable of sufficiently accurate measurement of lead isotope compositions, both for isotope geochemistry and for archaeological applications, is thermal ionization mass spectrometry. Any well-equipped laboratory can routinely measure lead isotope ratios with... 

U and U, and this is in part responsible for the more complex isotopic relationships displayed by lead isotopes in comparison with the systematics of strontium, neodymium, hafnium, and osmium isotopes. The mantle geochemistry of noble gases, although of course an integral part of mantle geochemistry, is treated in Chapter 2.06. 

Hart S. R. and Tilton G. R. (1966) The isotope geochemistry of strontium and lead in Lake Superior sediments and water. In The Earth Beneath the Continents. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, vol. 10. 

TouUioat P. and Beaucaire C. (1993) Geochemistry of water crossing the Cigar Lake uranium deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada), and use of uranium and lead isotopes as ore guides. Can. J. Earth Sci. 30, 754—763. 

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