Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest
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- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- Published by Stockholm University Press in Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
- Vol. 35B (1) , 77-80
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.1983.tb00011.x
Abstract
Acid rain is reported from the Amazon territory of Venezuela. The volume weighted average pHwas 4.7 for 70 storms sampled from January 1979 through February 1980. At this location,remote from point sources of industrial pollution, acid rain might result from naturalbiogeochemical processes in the rainforest, from global atmospheric pollution, or from somecombination of natural and polliition processes. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.1983.tb00011.xKeywords
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