Interconnected riverine-lacustrine systems as sedimentary repositories: Case study in southeast Michigan using 210Pb and 137Cs-based sediment accumulation and mixing models

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 432-446

  Jweda, Jason ^a   Baskaran, Mark ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs; 210Pb; Clinton River; Dating of river channel sediments; Fallout radionuclides; Radioisotope dating

Indexed keywords

137CS; 210PB; CLINTON RIVER; DATING OF RIVER CHANNEL SEDIMENTS; FALLOUT RADIONUCLIDES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CESIUM; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EROSION; FALLOUT; LAKES; MARINE POLLUTION; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LEAD;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FALLOUT; HISTORICAL RECORD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LEAD ISOTOPE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RADIONUCLIDE; RADON ISOTOPE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESUSPENSION; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATERSHED;

CLINTON RIVER; LAKE SAINT CLAIR; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052348233     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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