137Cs and 40K isotopes in forest and wasteland soils in a selected region of Eastern Poland 20 years after the Chernobyl accident

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-237

  Krolak, Elzbieta ^a   Kwapulinski, Jerzy ^b   Fischer, Agnieszka ^b  

^a SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION OF; GRANULOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; LITTER LAYER; SIMILAR PATTERN; SOIL SAMPLE; THREE-LAYER;

CESIUM; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL SURVEYS;

SOILS;

CARBON; CESIUM; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; SOIL; SURVEYS;

CARBON; CESIUM; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MOTION; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLAND; SOIL; TIME; TREE;

CARBON; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOTION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; POLAND; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 77954456245     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0265-5     Document Type: Article

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