Environmental Assessment of natural radioactivity in soil samples from the LUSI Mud Volcano, Indonesia

EnvironmentAsia

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 45-49

  Hazama, Ryuta ^a   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Building material; Gamma ray spectrometry; LUSI; Mud volcano; Radioactivity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; HEALTH RISK; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MUD VOLCANO; MUDFLOW; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ASIA; EAST JAVA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 70349110015     PISSN: 19061714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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