Short-term soil mixing quantified with fallout radionuclides

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-246

  Kaste, James M ^a   Heimsath, Arjun M ^a   Bostick, Benjamin C ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Erosion; Fallout; Mixing; Soil

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; SOIL MIXING;

ADVECTION; EROSION; FALLOUT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

SOILS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BIOTURBATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FOREST SOIL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIXING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BEGA VALLEY; CALIFORNIA; MARIN COUNTY; NEW SOUTH WALES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33947330127     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23355A.1     Document Type: Article

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