Asbestos and other fibrous minerals contained in the serpentinites of the Gimigliano-Mount Reventino Unit (Calabria, S-Italy)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3773-3786

  Bloise, Andrea ^a   Critelli, Teresa ^a   Catalano, Manuela ^a   Apollaro, Carmine ^a   Miriello, Domenico ^a   Croce, Alessandro ^b   Barrese, Eugenio ^a   Liberi, Francesca ^a   Piluso, Eugenio ^a   Rinaudo, Caterina ^b   Belluso, Elena ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Fibrous minerals; Mineralogical characterization; S Italy serpentinites

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; KAOLINITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERPENTINE; SILICATES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ANALYTICAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; S-ITALY SERPENTINITES; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN; CRYSTALLINITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEALTH CARE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MINERALOGY; OPHIOLITE; SERPENTINITE;

CALABRIA; CATANZARO; GIMIGLIANO; ITALY; MOUNT REVENTINO;

EID: 84897455406     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-3035-2     Document Type: Article

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