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Quaternary deposits and weathered bedrock material as a source of dangerous radon emissions in Estonia Cover

Quaternary deposits and weathered bedrock material as a source of dangerous radon emissions in Estonia

Geologos
Volume 21 (2015): Issue 2 (June 2015)
By: Valter Petersell,  Krista Jüriado,  Anto Raukas,  Mihkel Shtokalenko and  Krista Täht-Kok  
Open Access
|Jul 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/logos-2015-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 139 - 147
Submitted on: Jan 15, 2015
Accepted on: Apr 25, 2015
Published on: Jul 29, 2015
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
radon,
uranium,
klint,
graptolite argillite,
Quaternary deposits,
till
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Geophysics,
Geology and mineralogy,
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