Plutonium activities and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios in sediment cores from the East China Sea and Okinawa Trough: Sources and inventories

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 441-453

  Wang, Zhong Liang ^a,b   Yamada, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

240Pu 239Pu atom ratio; Close in fallout; East China Sea; Marine sediments; North Equatorial Current

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL FALLOUT; ION-EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERIC FALLOUT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ION EXCHANGE; SCAVENGING; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROMETRY;

PLUTONIUM;

DEEP SEA; FALLOUT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLUTONIUM;

EAST CHINA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 18244380315     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.024     Document Type: Article

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