Estimating Soil Erosion from the Redistribution of Fallout 137Cs

1 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Soil Science Society of America Journal

Vol. 38 (1) , 137-139
https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1974.03615995003800010042x

Abstract

The movement of fallout ¹³⁷Cs from soils in three north Mississippi watersheds was found to be logarithmically (r = 0.89) related to potential soil loss as calculated by the Universal Soil Loss Equation. Analysis of other published data on ¹³⁷Cs as well as the north Mississippi data also showed a significant (r = 0.95) logarithmic relation existing between soil loss and ¹³⁷Cs loss from soils. This study indicates that it may be possible to calculate soil loss from the movement of fallout ¹³⁷Cs in watersheds. Also it may be possible to calculate the movement of surface adsorbed nutrients like ¹³⁷Cs in watersheds from soil erosion data.

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