Multi-year tracking of sediment sources in a small agricultural watershed using rare earth elements

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1763-1774

  Kimoto, Akitsu ^a   Nearing, M A ^a   Shipitalo, M J ^b   Polyakov, V O ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Hillslope hydrology; Rare earth element; Sediment source areas; Soil erosion; Tracer depletion; Tracer enrichment

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHED; HILLSLOPE HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENT TRACER; TRACER DEPLETION; TRACER ENRICHMENT;

WATERSHEDS;

EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; TRACER; WATERSHED;

COSHOCTON COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845910917     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1355     Document Type: Article

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