A streamlined approach for sediment source fingerprinting in a Southern Piedmont watershed, USA

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1754-1769

  Mckinley, Robert ^a   Radcliffe, David ^a   Mukundan, Rajith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Mixing model; Nitrogen 15; Rapid geomorphic assessments; Sediment fingerprinting; TMDL

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MIXING; NITROGEN; PIEDMONT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TRACER; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887320106     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0723-1     Document Type: Article

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