210Pb as a tracer of soil erosion, sediment source area identification and particle transport in the terrestrial environment

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 343-354

  Matisoff, Gerald ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

210Pb; Particle transit time; Sediment fingerprinting; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION; LAND USE; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TRACERS;

RADIONUCLIDE INVENTORIES; SEDIMENT FINGERPRINTING; SOIL EROSION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT SOURCES; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TERRESTRIAL LANDSCAPE; TRANSIT TIME; ^210PB;

SOILS;

BERYLLIUM 7; LEAD 210; LEAD; SOIL; TRACER;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND TYPE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MODEL VALIDATION; PARTICLE MOTION; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SOIL EROSION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CULTIVATED LAND; ESTUARY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPE TRACING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PASTURELAND; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; ROCK; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL AND SOIL RELATED PHENOMENA; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL RADIOISOTOPE MIGRATION; SOIL RADIOISOTOPE RETENTION; STREAM (RIVER); SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; RADIATION MONITORING; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SOIL;

EID: 84919643128     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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