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Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest

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Pages 77-80 | Received 16 Nov 1981, Accepted 25 Mar 1982, Published online: 18 Jan 2017
 

Abstract

Acid rain is reported from the Amazon territory of Venezuela. The volume weighted average pH was 4.7 for 70 storms sampled from January 1979 through February 1980. At this location, remote from point sources of industrial pollution, acid rain might result from naturalbiogeochemical processes in the rainforest, from global atmospheric pollution, or from somecombination of natural and polliition processes.