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Article: Silica - Volatile interaction and the geological cause of the Xuan Wei lung cancer epidemic
Title | Silica - Volatile interaction and the geological cause of the Xuan Wei lung cancer epidemic |
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Issue Date | 2009 |
Citation | Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, v. 43, n. 23, p. 9016-9021 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Parts of Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, China have the highest known lung cancer mortality in nonsmoking women. This high mortality displays a clear spatial relationship to the mines producing coal from the uppermost Permian. Geochemical, petrographic, and grainsize analyses were undertaken on a set of coal samples from Xuan Wei. Results demonstrate that the single geochemical property that makes this coal unusual is its high concentration of quartz (13.5 wt %) of which 35-55% occurs as <10 μm grains. We propose the potential for silica-volatile interaction (PSVI) as a new method for assessing the combined influence of silica and volatile organic matter and use this as a basis for re-evaluating existing ecological data. Published lung cancer mortality values are more strongly correlated with PSVI values for Xuan Wei coal than with volatiles or silica alone and the PSVI values measured are distinct from those of other coals. Finally we propose that the localization of this epidemic to Xuan Wei results from enhanced weathering of the localEmeishanbasaltsasaconsequenceofgeochemical perturbations at the Permo-Triassic Boundary. © 2009 American Chemical Society. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207110 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 10.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 3.516 |
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dc.contributor.author | Large, David J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kelly, Shona J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Spiro, Baruch F. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tian, Linwei | - |
dc.contributor.author | Shao, Longyi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Finkelman, Robert B. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Mingquan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Somerfield, Chris | - |
dc.contributor.author | Plint, Steven M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yasmin, Arfa L I | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhou, Yiping | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-09T04:31:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-09T04:31:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, v. 43, n. 23, p. 9016-9021 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0013-936X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207110 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Parts of Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, China have the highest known lung cancer mortality in nonsmoking women. This high mortality displays a clear spatial relationship to the mines producing coal from the uppermost Permian. Geochemical, petrographic, and grainsize analyses were undertaken on a set of coal samples from Xuan Wei. Results demonstrate that the single geochemical property that makes this coal unusual is its high concentration of quartz (13.5 wt %) of which 35-55% occurs as <10 μm grains. We propose the potential for silica-volatile interaction (PSVI) as a new method for assessing the combined influence of silica and volatile organic matter and use this as a basis for re-evaluating existing ecological data. Published lung cancer mortality values are more strongly correlated with PSVI values for Xuan Wei coal than with volatiles or silica alone and the PSVI values measured are distinct from those of other coals. Finally we propose that the localization of this epidemic to Xuan Wei results from enhanced weathering of the localEmeishanbasaltsasaconsequenceofgeochemical perturbations at the Permo-Triassic Boundary. © 2009 American Chemical Society. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Environmental Science and Technology | - |
dc.title | Silica - Volatile interaction and the geological cause of the Xuan Wei lung cancer epidemic | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1021/es902033j | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19943682 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-72249105087 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 43 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 23 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 9016 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 9021 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1520-5851 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000272038900056 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0013-936X | - |