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Geochemistry and 14C dating of guano deposits in the Karaftu Cave, Kurdistan, Iran: implication for paleoenvironment
Karaftu Cave in the northwest of Divandareh includes four floors plus an underground area. The bat hall and its underground area are covered with...
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Evolution of the French Guiana coast from Late Pleistocene to Holocene based on chenier and beach sand dating
The 1500-km-long Guianas coast between the Amazon delta in Brazil and the Orinoco delta in Venezuela is characterized by alternations of muddy...
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Monitoring Hydro-Geomorphological Processes in Lake-Catchment Systems Through Lacustrine Sediments
In the lake catchment system, lakes are sinks of clastic, chemical, and biogenic materials. In the catchment area, lacustrine sediments can be used...
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Evaluation of the Sediment Rate of the Water Reservoir of a Hydroelectric Plant Using the 210Pb Dating Technique: Case Study of the Vigário Reservoir, Piraí, RJ/Brazil
The Vigário reservoir is part of the Paraíba do Sul basin hydrological complex, operated by Light Energia S/A., which supplies water to three...
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Could atmospheric carbon be driving sedimentation?
PurposeThe objective of this study was to provide insights into the most recent responses of sediments to climate change and their capability to...
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Reconstruction of the pollution history of the Urft reservoir: an organic-geochemical investigation
BackgroundThe reconstruction of the pollution history using aquatic sedimentary archives is of major relevance not only for the present and past, but...
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Historical Record of Magnetic and Geochemical Signals in Mountain Peat Bogs: A Case Study of the Black Triangle Region (the Izery Mountains, SW Poland)
Peat bogs are effective archives of magnetic particles. The diamagnetic properties of organic matter with a zero or slightly negative value of...
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Reconstructing the History of Nutrient Loads and Sources in the Derwent Estuary, Tasmania, Australia, using Isotopic Fingerprinting Techniques
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of estuarine sediment cores has proved useful for tracing nutrient sources and for assessing changes to...
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Tracking the legacy of early industrial activity in sediments of Lake Zurich, Switzerland: using a novel multi-proxy approach to find the source of extensive metal contamination
Historical industrial activities at the Horn Richterwil, on the shore of Lake Zurich (Switzerland), caused widespread metal contamination on land and...
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Coastal Wetland Elevation Dynamics, Sedimentation, and Accommodation Space Across Timescales
The capacity of coastal wetlands to maintain their position within a tidal frame is a key indicator of resilience to climate change. A range of...
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Environmental Radioactivity
In this chapter, a description is given of the presence of primordial and cosmogenic radionuclidesCosmogenic radionuclides in the different...
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Supplying a medieval metropolis: water management and agriculture in the hinterland of early Islamic Basra
Following its foundation in the 630s CE, medieval Basra rapidly expanded to became one of the most populous cities of southern Iraq and the wider...
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Impact of employment policies on disabled individuals in silvicultural activities
The prevalence of disability within societies necessitates empowering disabled individuals for their social and economic contributions. This study...
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10Be and 14C data provide insight on soil mass redistribution along gentle slopes and reveal ancient human impact
PurposeSpatial and temporal patterns of past erosional events are a useful and needed information to explain observed soil patterns in different...
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Developments in Pb-210 methodologies to provide chronologies for environmental change
Chronologies generated from core profiles to apply dates to environmental changes commonly use the measurement of the activity of radionuclides...
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Low-Background γ-Spectrometry in Ogoya Underground Laboratory, Ishikawa, Japan
The Ogoya Underground Laboratory (OUL), Ishikawa, Japan, is an active underground laboratory (270 m water equivalent; mwe) that specializes in...
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Inexorable land degradation due to agriculture expansion in South American Pampa
From 1985 onwards, South America has undergone a major expansion in agriculture at the expense of native vegetation (for example, native Pampa...
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Combining sediment fingerprinting with age-dating sediment using fallout radionuclides for an agricultural stream, Walnut Creek, Iowa, USA
PurposeThe main purpose of this study was to demonstrate the utility of the sediment fingerprinting approach to apportion surface-derived sediment,...
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Low-Level Counting and Spectrometry Techniques
The principles of LLC techniques were already introduced in the previous chapter. Here, we present specific techniques to improve FOM. Thus, the...
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Natural and Artificial Radioactivity
The main objective of this chapter is to describe the origin of the known radionuclides. Thus, primordial, cosmogenic, and artificial radionuclides...