Application of 210Pbex inventories to measure net hillslope erosion at burned sites

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-145

  Perreault, Lauren M ^a   Yager, Elowyn M ^a   Aalto, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

210Pb; Erosion; Geomorphology; Radionuclides; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC HABITATS; EROSION AND DEPOSITION RATES; EROSION RATES; FALLOUT RADIONUCLIDES; FIRE INTENSITY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; FORESTED SITES; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LEAD 210; ORGANIC MASS; ORGANIC SOIL; POST-FIRE EROSION; SEMI ARID; SOIL LOSS; SOIL SAMPLE; WILDFIRE; WIND TRANSPORT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEFORESTATION; EROSION; FIRES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS; WATER QUALITY;

LEAD;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; LEAD ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DEFORESTATION; EROSION; FOREST FIRES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84872813062     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3266     Document Type: Article

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