The effects of holocene podzolisation on radionuclide distributions and dose rates in sandy coastal sediments

Geochronometria

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-63

  Nielsen, Asger H ^a   Murray, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dose rate; Gamma spectrometry; Luminescence dating; Podzolisation; Radionuclide activity concentration

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349142691     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10003-008-0016-7     Document Type: Article

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