Land Degradation and Development · 1992 · 31 citations · 13 references
EngineeringRadiocaesium MeasurementsGeomorphologyNuclear DataRadioactive ContaminationLand DegradationEarth ScienceErosion PredictionChernobyl Radiocaesium MeasurementsRadiation DetectionGeographyCarpathian Erosion InvestigationGeologySedimentologySediment TransportRadioactive Waste DisposalEnvironmental RadiochemistrySoil ErosionHillslope ProcessRadioanalytical ChemistrySouthern Poland
Abstract The bomb‐test fallout radionuclide caesium‐137, has found increasing application in geomorphological investigations of soil erosion. Comparatively little work has investigated the potential for using 134 Cs and 137 Cs derived from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Results are reported from an agricultural foothill environment in the Beskidy Mountains of southern Poland. The high degree of spatial variability associated with Chernobyl fallout deposition poses considerable limitations on the potential for using radiocaesium measurements to elucidate detailed patterns of soil loss. Despite this problem, the redistribution of radiocaesium from field plots to terrace edges suggests a means for estimating the overall budgets for sediment transfer on cultivated slopes.
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Soil Erosion on Agricultural Land
John Gerrard, John Boardman, Ian Foster et al. · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · 1991 · 665 citations