Articles | Volume 11, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5123-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5123-2014
Research article
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23 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2014

Spatial variability and the fate of cesium in coastal sediments near Fukushima, Japan

E. E. Black and K. O. Buesseler

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