Mercury in paleoarchives as a proxy of environmental and climate changes

Abstract. The paper presents a case study of mercury in two types paleoarchives: ice cores and prehistoric animal hair, to assess the potential Hg using as proxy for environmental climate changes. Belukha core is well-suitable reconstruction short-term long-term deposition, recording global regional, natural anthropogenic emissions well regional changes during 320 years. concentrations hair mammoth fauna mammals reflect variation level environment period from 45 10 ka yr BP. following climatic are good agreement with other paleoarchive data (Hg fluxes EPICA Dome C Lake Baikal sediments).