Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review

L Mabit, M Benmansour, JM Abril, DE Walling… - Earth-science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Increasing anthropogenic pressures coupled with climate change impacts on natural
resources have promoted a quest for innovative tracing techniques for understanding soil …

[PDF][PDF] Brazilian marine animal forests: a new world to discover in the Southwestern Atlantic

M de Oliveira Soares, TM da Cruz Lotufo… - Marine Animal …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Southwestern Atlantic Ocean is the final Brazilian maritime frontier. The
Brazilian authorities refer to this marine area as the “Blue Amazon,” being rich in biodiversity …

Examining 239+ 240Pu, 210Pb and historical events to determine carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus burial in mangrove sediments of Moreton Bay, Australia

CJ Sanders, IR Santos, DT Maher, JL Breithaupt… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Two sediment cores were collected in a mangrove forest to construct geochronologies for
the previous century using natural and anthropogenic radionuclide tracers. Both sediment …

[HTML][HTML] Radiological investigation of high background radiation areas

F Mubarak, M Fayez-Hassan, NA Mansour… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this paper, we used the Hyper-Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector to measure 30 samples
which are collected from north of Nile Delta near Rosetta beach in Egypt. The activity of …

Mercury dilution by autochthonous organic matter in a fertilized mangrove wetland

W Machado, CJ Sanders, IR Santos, LM Sanders… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
A dated sediment core from a highly-fertilized mangrove wetland located in Cubatão (SE
Brazil) presented a negative correlation between mercury (Hg) and organic carbon contents …

Chemical distribution of hazardous natural radionuclides during monazite mineral processing

MM Hamed, MA Hilal, EH Borai - Journal of environmental radioactivity, 2016 - Elsevier
It is very important to calculate the radioactivity concentration for low-grade monazite ore
(50%) and different other materials produced as results of chemical processing stages to …

Quantification of some elements of nuclear and industrial interest from zircon mineral using neutron activation analysis and passive gamma-ray spectroscopy

MF Attallah, MA Hilal, SI Moussa - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2017 - Elsevier
A combined of various nuclear and analytical techniques were used for characterization of
Egyptian zircon ore. Neutron activation analysis has been used for determination of the …

Temporal variation of sedimentation rates and potential factors influencing those rates over the last 100 years in Bohai Bay, China

Y Zhang, X Lu, X Shao, C Chen, X Li, F Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fourteen sediment cores were collected from Bohai Bay, China, which is close to the fast-
developing megacities such as Beijing and Tianjin, and dated using excess Pb-210 and Cs …

Plutonium in Southern Yellow Sea sediments and its implications for the quantification of oceanic-derived mercury and zinc

J Wang, J Du, J Zheng, Q Bi, Y Ke, J Qu - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
The spatial distributions of mercury (Hg) and zinc (Zn) concentration and the isotopic
composition of plutonium (Pu) were investigated in surface sediments and sediment cores …

Statistical validation of the model of diffusion-convection (MDC) of 137Cs for the assessment of recent sedimentation rates in coastal systems

PA de Lima Ferreira, E Siegle, CAF Schettini… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2015 - Springer
This study aimed the validation of the model of diffusion-convection (MDC) of 137 Cs for the
calculation of recent sedimentation rates in 13 sedimentary cores of two Brazilian coastal …