History of bioavailable lead and iron in the Greater North Sea and Iceland 
during the last millennium - A bivalve sclerochronological reconstruction

Holland, Hilmar A.; Schöne, Bernd R.; Marali, Soraya; Jochum, Klaus P.

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.08.005

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History of bioavailable lead and iron in the Greater North Sea and Iceland during the last millennium - A bivalve sclerochronological reconstruction

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Jochum, Klaus P.
Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Holland, H. A., Schöne, B. R., Marali, S., & Jochum, K. P. (2014). History of bioavailable lead and iron in the Greater North Sea and Iceland during the last millennium - A bivalve sclerochronological reconstruction. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 87(1-2), 104-116. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.08.005.

Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-B068-4

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We present the first annually resolved record of biologically available Pb and Fe in the Greater North Sea and Iceland during 1040-2004 AD based on shells of the long-lived marine bivalve Arctica islandica. The iron content in pre-industrial shells from the North Sea largely remained below the detection limit. Only since 1830, shell Fe levels rose gradually reflecting the combined effect of increased terrestrial runoff of iron-bearing sediments and eutrophication. Although the lead gasoline peak of the 20th century was well recorded by the shells, bivalves that lived during the medieval heyday of metallurgy showed four-fold higher shell Pb levels than modern specimens. Presumably, pre-industrial bivalves were offered larger proportions of resuspended (Pb-enriched) organics, whereas modern specimens receive fresh increased amounts of (Pb-depleted) phytoplankton. As expected, metal loads in the shells from Iceland were much lower. Our study confirms that bivalve shells provide a powerful tool for retrospective environmental biomonitoring. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.