Effect of clay content and wetting-and-drying on radiocaesium behaviour in a peat and a peaty podzol

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 795-803

  Rosen K ^a   Shand, C A ^b   Haak, E ^a   Cheshire, M V ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

134Cs; Fixation; Frayed edge sites; Illite; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CLAY; CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; FALLOUT; MOISTURE; PEAT; SOILS;

134CS; FIXATION; FRAYED EDGE SITES; ILLITE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

CESIUM; CESIUM 134; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PEAT;

CESIUM; CLAY SOIL; GRASS; INCUBATION; PEAT; PODZOL; RADIOACTIVITY; SIMULATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE; YIELD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROPLAND; DRY WEIGHT; HARVEST; INCUBATION TIME; METAL EXTRACTION; MOISTURE; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PH; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACE SOIL; WETTABILITY;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DESICCATION; LOLIUM; POTASSIUM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER;

LOLIUM;

EID: 33746731081     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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