High-resolution, well-preserved tritium record in the ice of Borţig ice cave, Bihor Mountains, Romania

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 729-736

  Kern, Zoltán ^a   Molnár, Mihály ^b   Svingor, Éva ^b   Perşoiu, Aurel ^c   Nagy, Balázs ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

3H; Bomb peak; Cave ice; Central Europe; Liquid scintillation counting (LSC); Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; HIATUS; ICE CORE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; RADIOACTIVITY; RESOLUTION; TRITIUM;

BORTIG ICE CAVE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349462633     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609105296     Document Type: Article

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