Floodplain sedimentation rates in an alpine watershed determined by radionuclide techniques

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2038-2051

  Soster, Frederick M ^a   Matisoff, Gerald ^b   Whiting, Peter J ^b   Fornes, William ^b,d   Ketterer, Michael ^c   Szechenyi, Scott ^c,e  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pb; Mine tailings; Soda Butte Creek; Yellowstone River

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS; TAILINGS; WATERSHEDS;

ALPINE WATERSHED; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTATION; MASS ACCUMULATION; MINE TAILINGS;

LANDFORMS;

LANDFORMS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS; TAILINGS; WATERSHEDS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODPLAIN; LEAD ISOTOPE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; SODA BUTTE CREEK; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

EID: 36549018578     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1514     Document Type: Article

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