Monitoring of submarine groundwater discharge along the Donnalucata coast in the south-eastern Sicily using underwater gamma-ray spectrometry

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 874-884

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Comanducci, Jean Francois ^a   Levy Palomo, Isabelle ^a   Benjamino Oregioni, ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

214Bi; 222Rn; Coastal zone; Groundwater; Ionian Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Radionuclides; Seawater; Sicily; Submarine groundwater discharge; Underwater gamma ray spectrometry

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GROUNDWATER; RADON; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE;

DONNALUCATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RAGUSA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646381338     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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