Strontium-90 Fallout: Comparison of Rates over Ocean and Land
- 29 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 152 (3722) , 639-640
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.152.3722.639
Abstract
Measurements of strontium-90 in waters residing on the Bahama Banks for periods between 12 and 180 days suggest that fallout rates onto these waters are substantially the same as the average rates at all fallout collection stations between 20° and 30° north latitude. If the amount of preciptation on the Bahama Banks is reasonably representative of the oceanic areas in this latitude band, our results support the conclusion that the amount of strontium-90 deposited per unit area of ocean surface is within a factor of 2 of that on land.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Calcium carbonate precipitation on the Bahama BanksJournal of Geophysical Research, 1966
- The vertical distribution of cesium 137 and strontium 90 in the oceansJournal of Geophysical Research, 1963
- Strontium-90 in the ‘Mixed Layer’ of the Atlantic OceanNature, 1960