Uranium-series isotopes in colloids and suspended sediments: Timescale for sediment production and transport in the Murray-Darling River system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 418-431

  Dosseto, A ^a   Turner, S P ^a   Douglas, G B ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

erosion; radioactive disequilibrium; sediment transport; thorium; uranium; weathering

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WEATHERING MODEL; DETRITAL PHASE; RADIOACTIVE DISEQUILIBRIUM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

COLLOIDS; COMPOSITION; EROSION; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; THORIUM; URANIUM; WEATHERING;

RIVERS;

COLLOID; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; URANIUM SERIES DATING; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 33746934213     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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