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Abstract

New data support the contention that the mercury content of Greenland glacial ices has not increased dramatically in recent years but rather is distributed nonhomogeneously through the ice sheet.

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Volume 181 | Issue 4102
31 August 1973

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Roderick A. Carr
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375
Peter E. Wilkniss
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375

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