A preliminary assessment of the potential for using 210Pbex measurement to estimate soil redistribution rates on cultivated slopes in the Sichuan Hilly Basin of China

Catena

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Zhang, X ^a,b   Qi, Y ^a,c   Walling, D E ^d   He, X ^a   Wen, A ^a   Fu, J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pbex; Cultivated slopes; Hilly Sichuan Basin; Radionuclides; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CESIUM ISOTOPE; LEAD ISOTOPE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANYANG; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 33750360984     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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