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Science 16 May 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3881, pp. 825 - 827
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3881.825
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Strontium-90: Concentrations in Surface Waters of the Atlantic Ocean

Vaughan T. Bowen 1, Victor E. Noshkin 1, Herbert L. Volchok 2, and Thomas T. Sugihara 3

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 Health and Safety Laboratory, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, New York 10014
3 Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

From the large body of analyses of strontium-90 in surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean, annual average concentrations (from 10°N to 70°N) have been compared to those predicted. The data indicate higher fall-out over ocean than over land and confirm the rapid rates of down-mixing shown by most studies of subsurface strontium-90.


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