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MERCURY concentrations vary markedly from place to place in the world ocean1,2, we report here variations with time in bottom waters over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the FAMOUS area. Three sets of water samples from the axial rift valley have been examined since our original report of anomalous Hg in that region3. In 17 months Hg concentrations varied from 1,100 to 70 ng lā1 (Table 1; Fig. 1).
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CARR, R., JONES, M., WARNER, T. et al. Variation in time of mercury anomalies at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature 258, 588ā589 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258588a0
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