Submarine groundwater discharge investigations in Sicilian and Brazilian coastal waters using an underwater gamma-ray spectrometer

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue C, 2006, Pages 373-381

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Levy Palomo, Isabelle ^a   Comanducci, Jean Francois ^a   de Oliveira, Joselene ^b   Oregioni, Benjamino ^a   Privitera, Agata M G ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

214Bi; 222Rn; Brazil; Coastal zone; Gamma ray spectrometry; Groundwater; Mediterranean Sea; Radionuclides; Seawater; Sicily; Southwest Atlantic; Submarine groundwater discharge

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349095978     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(05)08030-7     Document Type: Review

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