90Sr and 89Sr in seawater off Japan as a consequence of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3649-3659

  Casacuberta, N ^a,b   Masque P ^b   Garcia Orellana, J ^b   Garcia Tenorio, R ^c   Buesseler, K O ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; MARINE POLLUTION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TSUNAMI; WATER POLLUTION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84881152590     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-3649-2013     Document Type: Article

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