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Titre :	Rates of wear of incoloy and stainless steel rings on Turnstones Arenaria interpres
Auteurs :	R. W. Summers, Auteur ; B. Etheridge, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ringing & Migration (19(2) Nov., 1998)
Article en page(s) :	81-85
Résumé :	One hundred Turnstones were ringed with both incolony and stainless steel rings on the Moray coast, Scotland, to measure the rates of wear of these rings. When new, the steel rings were larger and 2.6 times heavier than the incoloy rings. The rate of loss of mass (mg month-1) and loss of mass per surface area (mg cm-2 month-1) were greater for stainless steel rings compared with incoloy rings, but because the former were much heavier, the proportional loss of mass was less for stainless steel rings. There was individual variation in the rates of wear, with some numbers or letters starting to become illegible within

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