Accumulation of anthropogenic and natural radionuclides in bottom sediments of the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 17-21, 2003, Pages 2649-2673

  Moon, Duk Soo ^a   Hong, Gi Hoon ^a   Kim, Young Il ^a   Baskaran, Mark ^b   Chung, Chang Soo ^a   Kim, Suk Hyun ^a   Lee, Hee Jun ^a   Lee, Sang Han ^a   Povinec, Pavel P ^c  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENT MIXING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BACKGROUND LEVEL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIXING; RADIONUCLIDE;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141595068     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00140-1     Document Type: Article

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