Franklin expedition lead exposure: New insights from high resolution confocal x-ray fluorescence imaging of skeletal microstructure.

In the summer of 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, 128 officers and men aboard Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Lancaster Sound and entered the waters of Arctic North America. The goal of this expedition was to complete the discovery of a northwest passage by naviga...

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Main Authors: Treena Swanston, Tamara L Varney, Madalena Kozachuk, Sanjukta Choudhury, Brian Bewer, Ian Coulthard, Anne Keenleyside, Andrew Nelson, Ronald R Martin, Douglas R Stenton, David M L Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6107236?pdf=render