Sediment characteristics in the North Branch of the Yangtze Estuary based on radioisotope tracers

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1629-1634

  Dai, Zhi Jun ^a   Du, Jin Zhou ^a   Chu, Ao ^b   Zhang, Xiao Ling ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erosion and accretion; Radionuclide; Sediment; The Yangtze Estuary

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; RADIOISOTOPE TRACERS; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTIC; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; THE YANGTZE ESTUARY; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EROSION; ESTUARIES; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

ACCRETION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 79953163194     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0647-7     Document Type: Article

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