Although emissions from industrial operations and fossil fuel combustion are the major sources of acid-forming gases, acid rain has also been encountered in areas far from such sources. This is due in part to the fact that acid-forming gases are oxidized to acidic constituents and deposited over several days, during which time the air mass containing the gas may have moved as much as several thousand km. It is likely that the burning of biomass, such as is employed in “slash-and-burn” agriculture evolves the gases that lead to acid formation in more remote areas. In arid regions, dry acid gases or acids sorbed to particles may be deposited with effects similar to those of acid rain deposition.