Determination of radium isotopes and 222Rn in a groundwater affected coastal area of the Baltic Sea and the underlying sub-sea floor aquifer

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 137-149

  Purkl, S ^a   Eisenhauer, A ^b  

^a Res Center for Marine Geosciences ^*  (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha spectrometry; Eckernf rde Bay; Germany; Groundwater discharge; Liquid scintillation (LS) counting; Radium isotopes; Radium rad disks; Radon; Schleswig Holstein; Western Baltic Sea

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AQUIFER; COASTAL ZONE; GROUNDWATER; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; RADIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; ECKERNFORDE BAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

EID: 2342523470     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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