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Sedimentation rates in the Lake Qattinah using 210Pb and 137Cs as geochronometer Cover

Sedimentation rates in the Lake Qattinah using 210Pb and 137Cs as geochronometer

Geochronometria
Volume 41 (2014): Issue 1 (March 2014)
By: Eskander Alhajji,  Iyas Ismail,  Mohammad Al-Masri,  Nouman Salman,  Mohammad Al-Haleem and  Ahmad Doubal  
Open Access
|Dec 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-013-0142-5 | Journal eISSN: 1897-1695
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Language: English
Page range: 81 - 86
Published on: Dec 20, 2013
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Keywords:
210Pb,
137Cs,
dating,
Lake Qattinah,
sediments
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geosciences, other

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