Multidisciplinary analysis of Finnish esker sediment in radon source identification

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 405, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 129-139

  Breitner, Dániel ^a   Turtiainen, Tuukka ^b   Arvela, Hannu ^b   Vesterbacka, Pia ^b   Johanson, Bo ^c   Lehtonen, Marja ^c   Hellmuth, Karl Heinz ^b   Szabó, Csaba ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emanation; Ra, U and Th contents of esker sand; Radon source; U bearing minerals

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; GARNETS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIUM; RADON; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SULFATE MINERALS; THORIUM DEPOSITS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

CHEMICAL-; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSES; EMANATION; FINLAND; FINNISH; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; RA, U AND TH CONTENTS OF ESKER SAND; RADON SOURCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (SEM); SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTION; SIZE FRACTIONS; U-BEARING MINERALS; XENOTIME;

ACTINIDES;

MINERAL; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADON; THORIUM; URANIUM;

DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LATTICE DYNAMICS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADON; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; WEATHERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FINLAND; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT;

FINLAND; GAMMA RAYS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ETELA SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HOLLOLA; LAHTI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 53049089453     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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