Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide

Liu, MD; Zhang, QR; Maavara, T; Liu, SD; Wang, XJ; Raymond, PA

Wang, XJ (corresponding author), Peking Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Lab Earth Surface Proc, Minist Educ, Beijing, Peoples R China.; Raymond, PA (corresponding author), Yale Univ, Sch Environm, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.

NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2021; 14 (9): 672

Abstract

Rivers transport about 1,000 Mg mercury annually to coastal oceans, which is threefold greater than the amount delivered by atmospheric deposition, ac......

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