Preliminary investigation of the potential for using the 137Cs technique to date sediment deposits in karst depressions and to estimate rates of soil loss from karst catchments in southwest China

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn 337, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-156

  Zhang, X B ^a,b   Bai, X Y ^a   Wen, A B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulated sediment; Caesium 137; Dating; Erosion rates; Karst depression; Soil loss

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED SEDIMENT; CAESIUM-137; DATING; EROSION RATES; KARST DEPRESSION; SOIL LOSS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CESIUM; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITS; DISEASES; EROSION; ESTIMATION; LAND RECLAMATION; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS;

CATCHMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBONATE ROCK; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CULTIVATION; FOREST COVER; GRASS; HILL; KARST; KARSTIFICATION; LAND RECLAMATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; SOIL COVER; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE LAYER;

CHINA;

POACEAE;

EID: 79952669627     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Bai, X.Y., Zhang, X. B., Chen, H. & He, Y. B. (2010) Using Cs-137 fingerprint technique to estimate sediment deposition and erosion rates from Yongkang depression in karst region of Southwest China. Land Degrad. & Dev. 21, 1-6.
2. 137Cs in lake sediments and surface soils in western Yunnan and central Guizhou, China. Catena 49, 253-270.
3. He, Y. B., Yan, D. C. & Zeng, Y. (2010) Three case studies on 137Cs reference inventories. Nuclear Tech. (in press).
4. Peng, T., Wang, S. J. & Zhang X. B. (2008) Results of preliminary monitoring of surface runoff coefficients for karst slopes Earth Environ. 36, 152-157.
5. Peng, T., Yang, T. & Wang, S. J. (2009) Monitoring results of soil loss on karst slopes. Earth Environ. 37, 126-130.
6. Ritchie, J. C., Finney, V. L., Oster, K. J. & Ritchie, C. A. (2004) Sediment deposition in the flood plain of Stemple Creek Watershed, northern California. Geomorphology 61, 347-360.
7. Walling, D. E., Owens, P. M. & Leeks, G. J. L. (1999) Rates of contemporary overbank sedimentation and sediment storage on the floodplains of the main channel systems of the Yorkshire Ouse and River Tweed, UK. Hydrol. Processes 13, 993-1009.
8. Wang, S. & Liu, Q. (2004) Rocky desertification in southwestern China: geomorphology, land use, impact and rehabilitation Land Degrad Dev. 15, 115-121.
9. Wang, H. Huo, Y. & Zeng, L. (2008) A 42-yr soil erosion record inferred from mineral magnetism of reservoir sediments in a small carbonate-rock catchment, Guizhou Plateau, southwest China. J. Paleolimnol. 40, 206-214.
10. Ward, A. D., Rausch, D. L. & Haan, C. T. (1981) Heinemann H. G. and a verification study on a reservoir sediment deposition model. Am. Soc. Agric. Engng Trans. 24, 340-346.
11. Yuan, D. (1993) The Karst Study of China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China (in Chinese)
12. Zapata, F. (2002) Handbook for the Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Using Environmental Radionuclides. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
13. Zhang, X. B., & Walling, D. E. (2005) Characterizing land surface erosion from Cesium-137 profiles in lake and reservoir sediments. J. Environ. Qual. 34, 514-523.
14. Zhang, X. B., Higgitt, D. L. & Walling, D. E. (1990) A preliminary assessment of potential for using caesium-137 to estimate rates of soil erosion in the Loess Plateau of China. Hydrol Sci. J. 35, 243-252.
15. 137Cs fingerprinting technique to interpreting sediment production records from reservoir deposits in a small catchment of the Hilly Loess Plateau, China. Sci. China 50, 254-260.
16. Zhang, Z. W., Fu, W. L. & Zhang, H. (2007) Study on soil erosion of different degrees in karst region by using cesium-137 technique. J. Mountain Sci. 25, 302-308 (in Chinese with English abstract).
17. Zhou, Z. & An, Y. (2000) Remote sensing investigation of present soil erosion conditions and analysis of spatial changes in Guizhou Province. Bull. Soil Water Conserv. 20, 23-25 (in Chinese with English abstract).