U-Th Series Nuclides in Aquatic Systems

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Elsevier, 29‏/07‏/2011 - 440 من الصفحات
Major advancement in the U-Th measurement techniques since the 1990's have resulted in new opportunities for the use of these nuclides to probe into aquatic processes in greater detail. U-Th Series Nuclides in Aquatic Systems provides state-of-the-art reviews on the applications of U-Th series nuclides to "time" and "tag" in a variety of processes occurring in aquatic systems.
  • State of art reviews on the applications of U-Th Series nuclides to 'time'and 'tag' key processes occurring in aquatic systems.
  • Self-contained, each chapter presents nuclide source functions, processes regulating their distributions and models used to describe them
  • Emphasizes current thinking in the field and future directions
 

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Chapter 3 USeries Geochemistry in Weathering Profiles River Waters and Lakes
49
Chapter 4 Investigating Groundwater Processes Using U and ThSeries Nuclides
105
Chapter 5 Uranium and ThoriumSeries Nuclides as Tracers of Submarine Groundwater Discharge
155
Chapter 6 U and ThSeries Nuclides in Estuarine Environments
193
Chapter 7 U and ThSeries Nuclides as Tracers of Particle Dynamics Scavenging and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Oceans
227
Chapter 8 The Bioaccumulation of U and ThSeries Radionuclides in Marine Organisms
269
Chapter 9 Ocean CirculationMixing Studies with DecaySeries Isotopes
307
Chapter 10 Uranium and ThoriumSeries Radionuclides in Marine Groundwaters
345
Chapter 11 Sediment Signatures of U and ThSeries Nuclides and their Application as Paleoceanographic Tracers
383
Appendix A Charts of the 238U 235U 232Th and 241Am Decay Series with Principal Modes of Decay their Intensities and Energies
417
Appendix B Systematics of Radioactive Decay
425
Author Index
433
Subject Index
453
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Professor J. Kirk Cochran received his PhD in geochemistry from Yale University. Following two years on the scientific staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he joined the faculty of Stony Brook University's Marine Sciences Research Center (now the School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences) in 1983. He attained the rank of Professor in 1990 and served as Dean from September 1994 to January 1998. Professor Cochran's research interests include the use of naturally occurring radionuclides as tracers for oceanic processes and the fate of contaminants in the marine environment. He has studied biogeochemical processes in both the water column and bottom sediments, and has worked in coastal and open ocean environments as well as in lakes, rivers and groundwater. Professor Cochran has served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency and on numerous regional, national and international committees and advisory groups.

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