Behavior of uranium in the yellow river plume (Yellow River Estuary)

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 919-926

  Jiang, Xueyan ^a   Yu, Zhigang ^a   Ku, Teh Lung ^b   Kang, Xinglun ^c   Wei, Wei ^a   Chen, Hongtao ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; POREWATER; RIVER PLUME; SALINITY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; URANIUM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 40949106422     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841385     Document Type: Article

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