Radioactive contamination of the north-western Black Sea sediments

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 541-549

  Gulin, S B ^a   Polikarpov, G G ^a   Egorov, V N ^a   Martin, J M ^b   Korotkov, A A ^a   Stokozov, N A ^a  

^a A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

137Cs; Americium; Black Sea; Chernobyl; Danube River; Plutonium; Sediments

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHRONOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

(NORTHWEST); BLACK SEA;

EID: 0036522659     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.2000.0663     Document Type: Article

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