Natural radioactivity mapping of Greek surface soils

Environment International

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Anagnostakis, M J ^a   Hinis, E P ^a   Simopoulos, S E ^a   Angelopoulos, M G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THORIUM;

GERMANIUM GAMMA RAY DETECTORS; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY MAPPING;

RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

POTASSIUM 40; RADIUM 226; THORIUM 232;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030834067     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-4120(96)00085-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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