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BIBLIOGRAPhY ON RADIOTRACER-TAGGING SAND AND SEDIMENTS FOR STUDY 

 OF MASS TRANSPORT IN FLUVIAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS 



INTRODUCTION 



This bibliography was prepared for the U. S. Army Coastal Engineer- 

 ing Research Center as background material for the planning of future 

 projects related to the transport around Point Conception, California, of 

 sand labeled with radioisotopes. The list deals with the tracing of mass 

 transport in rivers and along coastlines by such means. 



The criterion for the sources was that they provide information on 

 techniques for tagging sands and sediments with radioactivity. However, 

 some of the sources may not be relevant because they were selected on the 

 basis of incomplete information. Most of them were available only as 

 abstracts or as references in related literature. Because of this re- 

 stricted availability of many of the original sources (progress reports, 

 journals with limited circulation, etc.), citations of abstracts , etc . , 

 are included in addition to those of the original sources. Thus the user 

 of this bibliography has more information upon which to decide whether 

 the original source would satisfy a specific need. The unavailability of 

 the original literature and the effort to include as much information as 

 was available in each case have led to a non-standard format in the final 

 presentation. 



SOURCES 



The main sources of information were Chemical Abstracts from 1 January 

 1937 (vol. 31 ) through 30 June 1967 (vol. 66) and Nuclear Science Abstracts 

 from 1 January 19^8 through 30 June 1967. The monography by Ingle, The 

 Movement of Beach Sand: An Analysis Using Fluorescent Grains, (Ref . Ul) 

 was also a rich source of material. The year 1937, that of the earliest 

 Chemical Abstracts surveyed, is significant only in that the Uth Decennial 

 Index of Chemical Abstracts encompasses the period 1937-H6. The year 19^6 

 is significant in that it is the year in which radioisotopes became avail- 

 able on a large scale. It is doubtful that any significant work related 

 to sand-tagging with radioactivity was performed prior to this time. 



Key or index words under which information in Chemical Abstracts was 

 sought were: (l) isotopes and (2) sand. The indexes of volumes 6k and 65 

 were not available at the time the literature search was made. For these 

 years all titles under the following sections were checked: 



(1) Nuclear Phenomena 



(2) Nuclear Technology 



(3) Apparatus, Plant Equipment and Unit Operations and Processes 

 (h) Ceramics 



(5) Mineralogical and Geological Chemistry 



(6) Petroleum, Petroleum Derivatives and Related Products. 



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