Radioactive level of coral reefs in the South China Sea
| Autor: | Xueyong Huang, Yinghui Wang, Kefu Yu, Wuhui Lin, Xinming Liu, Qiuyun Ning |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
China Water Pollutants Radioactive Fringing reef Coral Atoll 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Animals Seawater Reef 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category Terrigenous sediment Coral Reefs 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology fungi technology industry and agriculture Sediment Coral reef biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Anthozoa Pollution Radioactivity population characteristics Environmental science geographic locations |
| Zdroj: | Marine pollution bulletin. 142 |
| ISSN: | 1879-3363 |
| Popis: | In this study, we examined radioactivity simultaneously in surface marine sediments and coral skeletons collected from 12 locations of the fringing and atoll reefs in the South China Sea. Radioactive level declined from the fringing reefs to atoll reefs because of input of terrigenous minerals in the fringing reefs. Radioactivity was higher in coral skeletons than in marine sediments because of the high 228Ra activity in coral skeletons. Additionally, an abnormally low 226Ra/238U activity ratio ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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