Fingerprinting upland sediment sources: Particle size-specific magnetic linkages between soils, lake sediments and suspended sediments

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1359-1373

  Hatfield, Robert G ^a   Maher, Barbara A ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English Lake District; Environmental magnetism; Fuzzy clustering; Magnetic susceptibility; Sediment tracing; Soils; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT AREA; CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT; CATCHMENT SOILS; CLUSTER AFFINITY; ENGLAND; ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EROSION CONTROL; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOOD PLAINS; FUZZY CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL UNITS; HARD SOILS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC FINGERPRINTING; MAGNETIC REMANENCE; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MITIGATION MEASURES; PARENT MATERIALS; QUANTITATIVE IDENTIFICATION; RADIONUCLIDE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENT TRACING; SOIL MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SOIL PROFILES; SUBCATCHMENTS; SUSCEPTOMETERS; SUSPENDED LOADS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); EROSION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS;

SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; EROSION CONTROL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; SUBSOIL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPSOIL; UPLAND REGION;

BASSENTHWAITE; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69749104763     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1824     Document Type: Article

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