Plutonium from global fallout recorded in an ice core from the Belukha Glacier, Siberian Altai

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 6507-6512

  Olivier, Susanne ^a,b   Bajo, Sixto ^a   Fifield, L Keith ^c   Gäggeler, Heinz W ^a,b   Papina, Tatyana ^d   Santschi, Peter H ^e   Schotterer, Ulrich ^b   Schwikowski, Margit ^a,b   Wacker, Lukas ^b,c,f  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; GLACIERS; ICE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORDNANCE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GLOBAL FALLOUT; ICE CORE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POSTMORATORIUM TESTING;

PLUTONIUM;

PLUTONIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FALLOUT; ICE CORE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FALLOUT; GLACIER; ICE CORE RECORD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STRATOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ICE; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SIBERIA;

ALTAY; BELUKHA GLACIER; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 10644272740     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0492900     Document Type: Article

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