The origin and detection of spike-like anomalies in soil gas radon time series

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 431-438

  Lynn Chyi, L ^a   Quick, Thomas J ^a   Yang, Tsanyao Frank ^b   Chen, Cheng Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake cycle; Radon detection; Soil gas; Spike like anomaly; Time series

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; DESORPTION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; ELECTROKINESIS; RADON; SOIL GAS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84877845363     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.1.0145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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