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Fallout 137Cs and natural 40K as tracers of topsoil development during slope processes — a case study from the Daugai environs, Southern Lithuania Cover

Fallout 137Cs and natural 40K as tracers of topsoil development during slope processes — a case study from the Daugai environs, Southern Lithuania

Geochronometria
Volume 40 (2013): Issue 2 (June 2013)
By: Ieva Bauziene,  Jonas Mazeika and  Zana Skuratovic  
Open Access
|Mar 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-013-0101-1 | Journal eISSN: 1897-1695
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Language: English
Page range: 126 - 133
Published on: Mar 16, 2013
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Keywords:
137Cs method,
colluvial topsoil,
erosion-accumulation rate,
climatic indexes
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geosciences, other

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