Continuous radon monitoring in the Jowshan hot spring as an earthquake precursor, SE Iran

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 463-472

  Montazeri, H ^a,b   Abbasnejad, A ^a   Negarestani, A ^b  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b International Center for Science High Technology and Environmental Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Continuous monitoring; Earthquake precursor; Geothermometery; Jowshan hot spring

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RADON; SEISMOLOGY; SPRING WATER; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; THERMAL SPRING; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

IRAN;

EID: 84877861907     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.1.0148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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