Relationships between respiratory diseases and quartz-rich dust in Idaho, U.S.A.

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 1009-1019

  Norton, Michael R ^a   Gunter, Mickey E ^b  

^a Interface Computer School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; FELDSPAR; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUARTZ; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; GENERAL POPULATION; HUMAN CARCINOGEN; INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCERS; MOUNT ST. HELENS; PARTICULATE MATTER; STANDARD MORTALITY RATIOS; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

MINERALOGY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SILICATE;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033406078     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-7-802     Document Type: Article

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