Observations on lake sediments using fallout 137Cs as a tracer
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Cs-137 has been used extensively to date recent sediments.
“The short-lived radioisotope Cs-137 has been used extensively to date recent sediments (Pennington et al., 1973;Ritchie and McHenry, 1990;Walker, 2005), although in the next few decades it will be replaced by long-lived Pu-239 as the most distinguishable artificial radionuclide on Earth and the best chronological marker of the Anthropocene (Hancock et al., 2014;Waters et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- PENNINGTON, W., TUTIN, T. G., CAMBRAY, R. S., & FISHER, E. M.
- Affiliations
- Freshwater Biological Association (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1973-03
- Volume
- 242
- Issue
- 5396
- Pages
- 324-326
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2042171376
- Cited by
- 463
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Heavy metals in environment
- Keywords
- cesium-137, radioactive fallout, lake sediments, sediment accumulation, radioactive tracers, sediment mixing, English Lake District, atmospheric deposition
- MeSH terms
- Cesium Isotopes, England, Fresh Water, Radioactive Fallout, Water Pollution, Radioactive
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