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Airborne particulates can be carried over long distances, but for significant quantities of particulates larger than a few micrometres in diameter to be transported more than a few kilometres usually requires a means of injecting the material high into the atmosphere, such as a volcanic eruption, forest fire or desert windstorm. But an unusual event occurred in the Canadian Arctic last year, in which significant amounts of pine and spruce pollen (30-55 μm long) were transported roughly 3,000 km.
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Campbell, I., McDonald, K., Flannigan, M. et al. Long-distance transport of pollen into the Arctic. Nature 399, 29–30 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/19891
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