Accuracy of 210Pb dating in two annually laminated lake sediments with high Cs background

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1009-1019

  Reinikainen, P ^a   Merilainen J J ^a   Virtanen, A ^a   Veijola, H ^a   Aysto J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; LAKE WATER; LEAD 210; RADIUM 226;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CESIUM; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADON;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0030616324     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(96)00337-5     Document Type: Article

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