Estimation of recent sediment accumulation rates in the Baltic Sea using artificial radionuclides 137Cs and 239,240Pu as time markers

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-107

  Mattila, Jukka ^a   Kankaanpää, Harri ^b   Ilus, Erkki ^a  

^a STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

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