Multielemental analyses of tree rings by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Hall, Gene S.; Yamaguchi, David K.; Rettberg, Thomas M.

doi:10.1007/bf02164193

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“…LA-ICP-MS provides a repeatable, minimally destructive, sensitive method for determining many elements in wood tissue, with relatively high spatial resolution (Hall et al, 1990, Hoffmann et al, 1994.…”

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Variations of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood of pine growing in the area nearby chemical factories

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This study reports the variation of tree-ring widths and annual variation of concentration of metals (Na, Mg, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb) in pine growing nearby chemical factories. The conifers (Pinus silvestris L.) investigated in this study covered the time span from 1920s to 2010 AD. Tree-ring widths were measured, dated and rechecked using the COFECHA. Radial trace-element profiles were determined by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. The combined usage of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood provides historic records of anthropogenic impact on the environment and allows identifying the behavior adaptation of trees to the pollution. Data of pine tree cores collected from the sites nearby chemical factories show increasing levels of pollution linked to the increasing of industrial activities in Poland and subsequent dust fallout around the site. This study evidences that tree rings can be used as archives of past environmental contamination.

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Variations of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood of pine growing in the area nearby chemical factories

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“…Other elements on this list have no known direct connection with volcanoes or plant nutrition but were measured in order to provide a background pattern of temporal variability unrelated to the eruption (Hall et al 1990). Limits of detection were all #200 ppb, with many elements having a limit of detection #10 ppb.…”

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“…Dendrochemistry, the measurement and interpretation of elemental concentrations in tree rings (Smith and Shortle 1996), has been applied in a wide array of environmental research, including to hemisphericand global-scale explosive eruptions (Hall et al 1990;Padilla and Anderson 2002;Ü nlü et al 2005;Pearson 2006;Pearson et al 2005Pearson et al , 2006. However, we know of no dendrochemistry research on cinder-cone eruptions.…”

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Multiple Dendrochronological Signals Indicate the Eruption of ParíCutin Volcano, Michoacán, Mexico

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The eruption of Parícutin (1943Parícutin ( -1952, a cinder cone volcano in Michoacá n, Mexico, caused dendrochronological and dendrochemical responses that might be useful as general dating tools for eruptions. For the eruption period, pines near Parícutin have slightly suppressed ring widths plus high inter-annual variability of width. Wood anatomy changes include traumatic resin ducts and thin bands of false latewood. Dendrochemistry of tree rings shows little temporal variation in most elements, but beginning in 1943 sulfur content increased in rings of four trees and phosphorus content increased in rings of two trees. Hypotheses for increased S and P include new availability of pre-existing soil S and P and/or new input of S and P from the tephra itself. Pines at Parícutin also show suppressed ring widths for five years beginning in 1970, and had the eruption date not been known, the most likely conclusion from ring-width data alone would have been an eruption from 1970 to 1974. However, the 1970s suppression was in response to defoliation by a pine sawfly outbreak, not an eruption. For dendrochronological dating of cinder-cone eruptions, a combination of multiple characteristics (width, chemistry, and anatomy) would be more reliable than depending on any one characteristic alone.

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“…Sensitivity of SXFM to a wider range of elements could be improved by the use of a multi-pixel detector to increase the incident count rate and improve the signal to noise ratio, or by configuring the experiment and using equipment to optimize sensitivity to lower energy elements; however, in the future, an analytical approach combining the SXFM with an alternate analytical technique capable of detecting elements present at lower concentrations in wood might produce the best results. Solution induction ICP-MS may offer the best analytical potential in this regard as it has been shown that this can be used to resolve the widest range of elements (including the rare earth elements) in tree rings (Hall et al, 1990;Pearson et al, 2005Pearson et al, , 2009a. Analysis of various isotopic ratios may also prove useful (as illustrated by Bukata et al (2008) in terms of post burning tree-ring d 15 N values).…”

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“…There is nevertheless evidence to suggest that the impact of such sudden changes to the background elemental variation of a particular site can be recorded in tree rings. In particular, elements that are made more available by burning but which are resistant to acidic mobilization, for example copper (Cu), have been shown to increase in the years of known forest fires (Hall et al, 1990;Padilla and Anderson, 2002).…”

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An investigation of fire scars in Pseudotsuga macrocarpa by Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy

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Lombardo

2011

Forest Ecology and Management

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Multielemental analyses of tree rings by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Variations of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood of pine growing in the area nearby chemical factories

Variations of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood of pine growing in the area nearby chemical factories

Multiple Dendrochronological Signals Indicate the Eruption of ParíCutin Volcano, Michoacán, Mexico

An investigation of fire scars in Pseudotsuga macrocarpa by Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy

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