Bomb fall-out 236U as a global oceanic tracer using an annually resolved coral core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 359-360, Issue , 2012, Pages 124-130

  Winkler, Stephan R ^a   Steier, Peter ^a   Carilli, Jessica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

236U; Accelerator mass spectrometry; Coral; Fallout; Oceanic tracer

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CARIBBEAN SEA; CORAL; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; OCEAN WATER; OCEANIC TRACER; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WATER COLUMNS;

FALLOUT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE);

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CORAL; FALLOUT; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRACER; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84868572461     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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