Heat-producing radionuclides in metamorphic rocks of the Briançonnais-Piedmont Zone (Maritime Alps)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 213-219

  Verdoya, Massimo ^a   Chiozzi, Paolo ^a   Pasquale, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Background radiation; Field spectrometry; Heat production rate; NW Italy; Radioactive elements

Indexed keywords

HEAT PRODUCTION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; RADIONUCLIDE; SPECTROMETRY;

ITALY;

EID: 0034811896     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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