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Desorption of Ba and226Ra from river-borne sediments in the Hudson estuary

Yuan-Hui Li, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1979 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 3, pp 343-350
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The desorption of Ba and226Ra from river-borne sediments in the Hudson estuary can be explained quantitatively by the drastic decrease in the distribution coefficients of both elements from a fresh to a salty water medium.
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This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 226 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Estuary.

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Coral record of increased sediment flux to the inner Great Barrier Reef since European settlement

TL;DR: Analysis of Ba/Ca ratios in long-lived Porites coral from Havannah Reef is used to establish a record of sediment fluxes from about 1750 to 1998 and concludes that, since European settlement, land-use practices have led to major degradation of the semi-arid river catchments, resulting in substantially increased sediment loads entering the inner Great Barrier Reef.
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The barite-opal-organic carbon association in oceanic particulate matter

TL;DR: Barite formation appears to be caused by biological activity in the upper water column, but the exact mechanism is unknown as mentioned in this paper, but it is known that barite particles 0.5-5 µm in size are ubiquitous in the ocean and their formation, sinking and dissolution is a major part of the marine barium cycle.
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The chemistry, fluxes, and sources of carbon dioxide in the estuarine waters of the Satilla and Altamaha Rivers, Georgia

TL;DR: In this paper, the pH, alkalinity (Alk), and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in estuarine waters of several rivers of Georgia in the southeastern United States are reported.
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U-Th-Ra Fractionation During Weathering and River Transport

TL;DR: Goldstein and Stirling as mentioned in this paper presented the main directions taken in these domains over the last decade, including the analytical developments made in the measurement of the medium half-life nuclides of 238U series (i.e., 234U-230Th-226Ra) in the mid-1980s, namely, the use of thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (TIMS) (e.g., Chen et al. 1986, Edwards et al 1987, Cohen et al 1991, Chabaux 1993,Chabaux et al 1994) and more recently the use
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TL;DR: In this paper, it has been shown that recycling and evolution are complementary concepts and that the observed secular variations in relative proportions of lithologic types and in chemistry of sedimentary rocks were mostly given an evolutionary interpretation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a general model for mixing processes between river and ocean water is presented, in which established criteria for the identification of any non-conservative behavior of the dissolved constituents involved.
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TL;DR: Barium profiles at the Atlantic stations of the Geochemical Ocean Sections (GEOSECS) Program are remarkably similar to those for silicate and alkalinity as mentioned in this paper, and both barium and silica behave non-conservatively in basins with restricted circulation.
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Non-conservative behavior of barium during mixing of Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico waters

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