Radionuclide activities in sediments on the northern coast of Spitsbergen

• Published in: Polish Polar Research
• Main Authors: Wojtasik, Barbara, Świrydowicz, Sławomir, Burska, Dorota, Nowiński, Kamil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2017
• Subjects: Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Svalbard; Woodfjorden; Wijdefjorden; Bockfjorden; Polar Research; Vestfjorden; Wijdefjord*; Woodfjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/popore-2017-0019; http://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/popore/38/3/article-p291.xml; http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/popore.2017.38.issue-3/popore-2017-0019/popore-2017-0019.pdf

Abstract The specific activity of natural gamma emitters like actinium ( 228 Ac), bismuth ( 212 Bi, 214 Bi), lead ( 212 Pb, 214 Pb), potassium ( 40 K), radium ( 224 Ra), thallium ( 208 Tl) and artificial radioisotope caesium ( 137 Cs) was measured in 2005 in the surface layer of marine sediments in...