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Application of the 210Pb and 137Cs radionuclides in the geochronology of modern sediments at the storage sites of solid radioactive wastes in the Arctic Basin

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  1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    O. V. Stepanets, A. P. Borisov, A. V. Travkina & G. Yu. Solov’eva

  2. Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Teatral’nyi proezd 3, Moscow, 109012, Russia

    M. V. Vladimirov

  3. Chemical Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    R. A. Aliev

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Original Russian Text © O.V. Stepanets, A.P. Borisov, A.V. Travkina, G.Yu. Solov’eva, M.V. Vladimirov, R.A. Aliev, 2010, published in Geokhimiya, 2010, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 424–429.

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Stepanets, O.V., Borisov, A.P., Travkina, A.V. et al. Application of the 210Pb and 137Cs radionuclides in the geochronology of modern sediments at the storage sites of solid radioactive wastes in the Arctic Basin. Geochem. Int. 48, 398–402 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702910040087

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