Dispersion of channel-sediment contaminants in distributary fluvial systems: Application to fluvial tephra and radionuclide redistribution following a potential volcanic eruption at Yucca Mountain

Geomorphology

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 226-246

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a   DeLong, Stephen B ^a   Cline, Michael L ^a   Harrington, Charles D ^b   Keating, Gordon N ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant transport; Drainage networks; Flood scour; Radionuclides

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLOOD; HEAVY METAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; REPOSITORY; SCOUR; TEPHRA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 37349046479     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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