Environmental Archives of Contaminant Particles

摘要: Particulates in the environment may be contaminants or pollutants. They affect climate through: absorption of energy atmosphere and by reducing albedo ice snow surfaces; enhance transfer distribution pollutants such as trace metals persistent organic via adsorption to their adversely impact health aquatic life consequently other biota that depend upon it; they have direct effects on human respiratory disease substances deep into system. Therefore, it is important able determine temporal trends particulate emissions deposition. Natural archives ice, sediment peat cores can provide well-resolved records, but research has mainly focussed a few particle types, predominantly black carbon. In this chapter we review environmental records carbon industrially-derived particles, analysis, interpretation relative strengths weaknesses. Finally consider two emerging types: microplastics nanoparticles. These latter groups have, so far, received little attention from palaeoecological perspectives impacts ability transport within ecosystems becoming increasingly apparent literature are predicted further increase coming decades.