Fallout Radionuclides and the Study of Erosion and Sedimentation

Establishing a sediment budget for a small agricultural catchment in southern Brazil, to support the development of effective sediment management strategies

“…The development of two groups of techniques must be seen as having greatly increased the potential for establishing meaningful catchment sediment budgets. The first is the use of fallout radionuclides, particularly caesium-137 ( 137 Cs), to document the mobilization and redistribution of soil and sediment across the surface of a catchment and the deposition of sediment within sediment sinks (see Zapata and Nguyen, 2010;Matisoff and Whiting, 2011;Walling, 2012). The second is the use of sediment source fingerprinting techniques to identify the primary suspended sediment sources in a catchment and to quantify their relative contributions to the sediment flux at the catchment outlet (see Walling, 2005Walling, , 2013.…”

Investigation of the effect of anthropogenic land use on the Pănăzii Lake (Romania) catchment area using Cs-137 and Pb-210 radionuclides

“…Fallout radionuclides can be used to provide information on soil erosion and redistribution rates as well as patterns. The potential for using fallout radionuclides in soil erosion studies has been clearly demonstrated by many studies from different parts of the world [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] including in Romania [19,20].…”

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

“…Other reviews have focused on other fallout radionuclide (FRN) soil tracers or such tracers more generally (e.g. Zapata, 2002;Mabit et al, 2008;Kaste and Baskaran, 2011;Matisoff and Whiting, 2011;Walling, 2012;Taylor et al, 2013;Walling, 2013), but to date there is little available literature focusing in depth on 210 Pb and its terrestrial environmental applications (i.e. as a soil and sediment tracer).…”