Table VIII
Decay Rates of Rongelap Samples Expressed as the Slope
¢ the Log-log Relationship of Activity to Time after March 1, 1954
Fish, invertebrate, and bird tissues
Gut or
Viscera
Li
~1 45
0.30
Giil
~1.28
Miscellaneous
@ @ x
of bird
Plankton
number of relationships
mean slope
Algae
Coconut
standard deviation:
;
coefficient of variation of slope
Other
land
plants
soil
2
~-1.30
0.01
-1.31
0.04