Assessing Soil Erosion Rates on Manually-Tilled Hillslopes in the Sichuan Hilly Basin Using 137Cs and 210Pbex Measurements1 1 Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2003CB415201), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40671120), the International Atomic Energy Agency (Nos. 12322/RO and UK-12094)

Pedosphere

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-283

  ZHENG, Jin Jun ^a,b   HE, Xiu Bin ^a   WALLING, D ^a,c   ZHANG, Xin Bao ^a,d   FLANAGAN, D ^e   QI, Yong Qing ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e NATIONAL SOIL EROSION RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pbex; hoetillage; purple soil; soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CESIUM ISOTOPE; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAD ISOTOPE; PLOWING; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 34249942748     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(07)60034-4     Document Type: Article

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