Retrospection of recent 30-year changes in the process of soil wind erosion in the Luanhe River Source Area of North China using Cesium-137

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1785-1789

  Chen, Zhi fan ^a,b   Zhao, Ye ^a   Qiao, Jie juan ^a   Zhang, Qing ^c   Zhu, Yu en ^a   Xu, Cui hua ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

137CS tracer technique; Soil Aeolian process; SWEI; The Luanhe River Source Area

Indexed keywords

137CS TRACER TECHNIQUE; ANALYSIS RESULTS; CESIUM 137; CONTINUOUS TIME; DETECTOR SYSTEMS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIGH-PURITY GERMANIUM; NORTH CHINA; PROCESS OF SOIL; SEMI ARID; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PARTICLES; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL WIND EROSION; SOURCE AREA; STUDY AREAS; SWEI; THE LUANHE RIVER SOURCE AREA; WIND EROSIONS;

CESIUM; GERMANIUM; RIVERS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

EROSION;

CESIUM 137; GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TREATMENT; WIND EROSION;

EID: 68949204166     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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