Short-lived radionuclides (7Be and 210Pb) as tracers of particle dynamics in a river system in southeast Michigan

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1934-1944

  Jweda, Jason ^a   Baskaran, Mark ^a   Van Hees, Ed ^a   Schweitzer, Linda ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; LEAD ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; RESUSPENSION; RIVER WATER; TRACER; WATER QUALITY;

CLINTON RIVER; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52149112031     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5.1934     Document Type: Article

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