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  title info:
    title: Application of Geochemical Tracers to Fluvial Sediment
  name:
    name part: Miller, Jerry R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mackin, Gail.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Orbock Miller, Suzanne M.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 142 p. 40 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book takes an in-depth look at the theory and methods inherent in the tracing of riverine sediments. Examined tracers include multi-elemental concentration data, fallout radionuclides (e.g., 210Pb, 137Cs, 7Be), radiogenic isotopes (particularly those of Pb, Sr, and Nd), and novel (“non-traditional”) stable isotopes (e.g., Cd, Cu, Hg, and Zn), the latter of which owe their application to recent advances in analytical chemistry. The intended goal is not to replace more ‘traditional’ analyses of the riverine sediment system, but to show how tracer/fingerprinting studies can be used to gain insights into system functions that would not otherwise be possible. The text, then, provides researchers and catchment managers with a summary of the strengths and limitations of the examined techniques in terms of their temporal and spatial resolution, data requirements, and the uncertainties in the generated results. The use of environmental tracers has increased significantly during the past decade because it has become clear that documentation of sediment and sediment-associated contaminant provenance and dispersal is essential to mitigate their potentially harmful effects on aquatic ecosystems. Moreover, the use of monitoring programs to determine the source of sediments to a water body has proven to be a costly, labor intensive, long-term process with a spatial resolution that is limited by the number of monitoring sites that can be effectively maintained. Alternative approaches, including the identification and analysis of eroded upland areas and the use of distributed modeling routines also have proven problematic. The application of tracers within riverine environments has evolved such that they focus on sediments from two general sources: upland areas and specific, localized, anthropogenic point sources. Of particular importance to the former is the development of geochemical fingerprinting methods that quantify sediment provenance (and to a much lesser degree, sedime…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Geochemical Fingerprinting -- Fallout Radionuclides -- Radiogenic Isotopes -- Stable ‘Non-Traditional’ Isotopes -- Abbreviations, Unit Conversions, and Elemental Data.
  note: by Jerry R. Miller, Gail Mackin, Suzanne M. Orbock Miller.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental health
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Health
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  classification: QE471-471.15
  classification: 551.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
  identifier: 9783319132211
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13221-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 141203
    record change date: 20151031081106.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-13221-1