Uranium-236 as a new oceanic tracer: A first depth profile in the Japan Sea and comparison with caesium-137

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-170

  Sakaguchi, Aya ^a   Kadokura, Akinobu ^a   Steier, Peter ^b   Takahashi, Yoshio ^a   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a   Nakakuki, Tomoeki ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cs 137; GEOTRACES; Global fallout; The Japan Sea; U 236

Indexed keywords

CS-137; GEOTRACES; GLOBAL FALLOUT; JAPAN SEA; U-236;

FALLOUT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; URANIUM;

CESIUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TRACER; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 84861117501     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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