Applied dendroecology and environmental forensics. Characterizing and age dating environmental releases: Fundamentals and case studies

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Balouet, Jean Christophe ^a   Oudijk, Gil ^b   Smith, Kevin T ^c   Petrisor, Ioana ^d   Grudd, Hakan ^e   Stocklassa, Bengt ^f  

^a Environment International   (France)

^b Triassic Technology   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d HALEY AND ALDRICH INC   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f Analytical Systems ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age dating; Contaminant; Dendrochemistry; Dendroecology; EDXRF; Energy Dispersive X ray Fluorescence; Environmental forensics; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847786287     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920601180487     Document Type: Review

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