Applicability of 239Pu as a tracer for soil erosion in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 294, Issue , 2013, Pages 577-583

  Lal, R ^a   Tims, S G ^a   Fifield, L K ^a   Wasson, R J ^b   Howe, D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMS; Plutonium; Soil loss

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROSCOPY; AMS; AUSTRALIA; BUSH FIRES; HIGH INTENSITY; LAND CLEARING; LAND COVER; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORIES; PRIMARY FACTORS; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SOIL CORES; SOIL EROSION; SOIL LOSS;

CATCHMENTS; CULTIVATION; EROSION; PLUTONIUM; SOIL CONSERVATION;

SOILS;

EID: 84870862699     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.07.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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