Geochemical traces of flood layers in the fluvial sedimentary archive; Implications for contamination history analyses

Catena

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Bábek, Ondřej ^a,b   Faměra, Martin ^a,b   Hilscherová, Klára ^a   Kalvoda, Jiří ^a   Dobrovolnỳ, Petr ^a   Sedláček, Jan ^a,b   Machát, Jiří ^a   Holoubek, Ivan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Flood sediments; Heavy metals; High resolution stratigraphy; Historical trends; Magnetic susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; FLOOD; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXBOW LAKE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVA RIVER;

EID: 79960899203     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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