The tracing of riverine U in Arctic seawater with very precise 234U/238U measurements

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 171-185

  Andersen, M B ^a,b   Stirling, C H ^a,c   Porcelli, D ^d   Halliday, A N ^a,d   Andersson, P S ^e   Baskaran, M ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Laboratory for Isotope Geology   (Sweden)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; non conservative; radionuclides; U series; uranium; uranium disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; RIVERINE FLUX;

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; URANIUM;

SEAWATER;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRECISION; RADIONUCLIDE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEAWATER; TRACER; URANIUM; WATER QUALITY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

EID: 34250694983     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.051     Document Type: Article

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