Assessment of 137Cs and 239,240Pu distribution in forest soils of the Opole anomaly

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 206, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 307-320

  Ziembik, Zbigniew ^a   Dołhańczuk Śródka, Agnieszka ^a   Komosa, Andrzej ^b   Orzeł, Jolanta ^b   Wacławek, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

137Cs; 239,240Pu; Forest soil; Robust linear regression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SPECTROMETRY; BOUNDARY REGIONS; DATA TRANSFORMATION; FOREST SOILS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; INORGANIC SOILS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; ROBUST LINEAR REGRESSION; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILES;

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CESIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

CESIUM 137; ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREST SOIL; ORGANIC MATTER; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROFILE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREST SOIL; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STANDARDIZATION;

OPOLE [POLAND]; POLAND;

EID: 75049085149     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0107-8     Document Type: Article

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