Synchrotron Radiation Analysis of a Smelter Impacted Tree-Ring Sample
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2001
Journal / Book Title
Canadian Journal of Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy
Abstract
Dendroanalysis, the study of the element distribution in tree rings, suffers from the large number of analyses required to characterize the radial distribution of elements in a tree stem over a reasonable time period. Micro-Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence provides a promising approach since it is capable of interrogating stem sections corresponding to the order of 100 years of growth in a reasonable time. The Synchrotron Micro X-ray Fluorescence results presented here, representative of tree growth between 1895 and 1997, were obtained from a black spruce (Picea mariana) impact ed by air-borne metal pollutants from a metal smelter.
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
ISSN 1205-6685
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Naftel, S. J.; Martin, R. R.; Jones, Keith W.; Feng, Huan; Savard, Martine M.; and Bégin, Christian, "Synchrotron Radiation Analysis of a Smelter Impacted Tree-Ring Sample" (2001). Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 563.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/563
Published Citation
Naftel, S. J., Martin, R. R., Jones, K. W., Feng, H., Savard, M. M. & Bégin, C. (2001). Synchrotron radiation analysis of a smelter impacted tree-ring sample. Canadian Journal of Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy, 46, 4, 118-122.