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Long-Term Correlations between Mining Activity and Levels of Lead and Cadmium in Tree-Rings of Eastern Red-Cedar

The School of Natural Resources, 1-30 Agriculture Bldg., Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211.

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ABSTRACT

Growth increments of eastern red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) from sites in the Pb mining district of southeast Missouri were subjected to multielemental analysis. Three chronologies, two of Pb and one of Cd, were constructed from heartwood growth increments of 27 trees on sites in the mining district and on control sites. No significant increases in Pb and Cd were found in growth increments of trees on control sites. Lead in the xylem of trees growing in acid soils of the mining district increased from 3.1 µmol kg^–1 in growth increments formed before 1900 to 7.8 µmol kg^–1 in increments formed after 1900. Cadmium was detected in 46% of the wood formed after 1900 vs. 3% of the wood formed before 1900. Lead and Cd were found only in wood grown on acid soils (pH <4.6) and not in wood grown in more basic soils. Lead and Cd concentrations in growth increments are found to be highly correlate with Pb production. Lead in sapwood was also found to correlate with soil pH on acid sites in both the mining district and in the control sites.

Contribution from Univ. of Missouri-Columbia's The School of Natural Resources.

Research supported in part by USDA Grant 86-CRCR-1-2074. This is paper no. 11 222 in the Univ. of Missouri's Agric. Exp. Stn. Journal Series.

Received for publication January 8, 1990.

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