Quantifying the dominant sources of sediment in a drained lowland agricultural catchment: The application of a thorium-based particle size correction in sediment fingerprinting

Geomorphology

Volumn 250, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-281

  Foucher, Anthony ^a   Laceby, Patrick J ^b   Salvador Blanes, Sébastien ^a   Evrard, Olivier ^b   Le Gall, Marion ^b   Lefèvre, Irène ^b   Cerdan, Olivier ^c   Rajkumar, Vignesh ^a,d   Desmet, Marc ^a  

^a Parc de Grandmont   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

^d ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural lowland areas; Cesium 137; Particle size correction; Sediment tracing; Tile drainage networks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CATCHMENT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CORRECTION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; THORIUM;

EID: 84942518503     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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