Sediment tracers in water erosion studies: Current approaches and challenges

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 816-833

  Guzmán, Gema ^a   Quinton, John N ^b   Nearing, Mark A ^c   Mabit, Lionel ^d   Gómez, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Erosion; Fallout radionuclides; Fingerprinting; Rare earth elements; Sediment; Soil magnetism and magnetic substances; Tracers

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FALLOUT; RADIONUCLIDE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; TRACER; WATER EROSION;

EID: 84875386251     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0659-5     Document Type: Article

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