The industrial history of central Scotland over the past 2500 years has been traced by a team of Scottish researchers measuring lead and antimony in peat bog cores.John Farmer at the University of Edinburgh and his group probed Flanders Moss,an ombrotrophic peat bog in central Scotland.All the water,nutrients and pollutants in these bogs originate from precipitation alone,and so act as a record of the atmospheric concentrations of metals over the years.
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