Assessment of erosion and deposition rates within an Austrian agricultural watershed by combining 137Cs, 210Pbex and conventional measurements

Geoderma

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 231-239

  Mabit, L ^a   Klik, A ^b   Benmansour, M ^c   Toloza, A ^a   Geisler, A ^d   Gerstmann, U C ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE L ENERGIE DES SCIENCES TECHNIQUES NUCLEAIRES   (Morocco)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pb; Erosion plots; Erosion rates; Sedimentation rates; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CULTIVATION; DEPOSITION RATES; EROSION; LAND USE; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

EROSION PLOTS; EROSION RATES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SOIL EROSION; ^137CS; ^210PB;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ARABLE LAND; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; DEPOSITION; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MASS BALANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LOWER AUSTRIA; MISTELBACH;

EID: 64749097452     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.01.024     Document Type: Article

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