Quantifying the dominant sources of sediment in a drained lowland agricultural catchment The application of a thorium-based particle size correction in sediment fingerprinting》.pdf

Geomorphology 250 (2015) 271–281 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Geomorphology journal homepage: www. elsevier. com/ locate/geomorph Quantifying the dominant sources of sediment in a drained lowland agricultural catchment: The application of a thorium-based particle size correction in sediment fingerprinting Anthony Foucher a,⁎, Patrick J. Laceby b, Sébastien Salvador-Blanes a, Olivier Evrard b, Marion Le Gall b, Irène Lefèvre b, Olivier Cerdan c, Vignesh Rajkumar a,d, Marc Desmet a a E.A. 6293 GéHCO, GéoHydrosystèmes COntinentaux, Université F. Rabelais de Tours, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France b Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de lEnvironnement (LSCE/IPSL), UMR 8212 (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France c Département Risques et Prévention, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, 3 avenue Claude Guillemin, 45060 Orléans, France d Centre for Water Resources, CEG, Anna University, Sardar Patel Rd, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600025, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Soil erosion is one of the main factors influencing land degradation and water quality at the global scale. Received 24 December 2014 Identifying the main sediment sources is therefore essential for the implementation of appropriate soil erosion Received in revised form 14 September 2015 mitigation measures. Accordingly, caesium-137 (137Cs) concentrations were used to determine the relative Accepted 15 September 2015 contribution of surface and subsurface erosion sources in a lowland drained catchment in France. As 137Cs Availabl