Radon in soil gas: How to identify anomalies caused by earthquakes

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1106-1119

  Zmazek, B ^a   Zivcic M ^a,b   Todorovski, L ^a   Dzeroski S ^a   Vaupotic J ^a   Kobal, I ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; REGRESSION TREES; SOIL GASES;

RADON;

EARTHQUAKE; RADON; SOIL EMISSION;

EID: 19344377419     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.01.014     Document Type: Article

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