Chronology of Lead Pollution Contained in Banded Coral Skeletons

Richard E. Dodge; T. R. Gilbert

doi:10.1007/BF00392758

Chronology of Lead Pollution Contained in Banded Coral Skeletons

Richard E. Dodge
, T. R. Gilbert

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Abstract

Lead concentrations relative to calcium within dated subsamples of hermatypic (reef-building) coral skeletons from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, record ambient pollution levels. Concentrations within a coral from a polluted reef (395 ng g ^-1 ) average five-fold higher than within a coral from a pristine site (87 ng g ^-1 ). The lead chronologies of both corals show a significant increase in concentration towards the present during the past 26 yr (1954–1980). The increase in lead concentration in the coral from the pristine site is suggested to represent the increase in lead availability from global pollution. Coral skeletons offer the probability of development into tools for longterm chemical recorders of levels of lead and possibly other metals or compounds in seawater.

Original language	American English
Journal	Marine Biology
Volume	82
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392758
State	Published - Aug 1 1984

Bibliographical note

Dodge, R. E., and T. R. Gilbert. 1984. "Chronology of lead pollution contained in banded coral skeletons." Marine Biology no. 82 (1):9-13. doi: 10.1007/BF00392758.

Keywords

Coral reefs
US Virgin Islands

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Zoology

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Chronology of Lead Pollution Contained in Banded Coral Skeletons

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