Natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in rocks and beach sands from Ezine region (Çanakkale), Western Anatolia, Turkey

Örgün, Yüksel; Altınsoy, N.; Şahin, Sabah Yılmaz; Güngör, Yıldırım; Gültekin, Ali Haydar; Karahan, G.; Karacık, Zekiye

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2006.06.011

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“…The heavy, heavy magnetic and heavy non-magnetic (%wt.) fractions are given in Table 1, are in well agreement with the natural radioactivity levels reported by the literature concerning data from regular background radiation areas [3,14,15,[17][18][19]. Moreover, data of samples obtained by heavy minerals enriched horizons, are comparable with the levels reported for high background radiation level areas in India, Brazil and Sithonia, Greece [11,13,16,18,36].…”

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Natural radioactivity distribution and gammaradiation exposure of beach sands close to Kavalapluton, Greece

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This study aims to evaluate the activity concentrations of 238 U, 226 Ra, 232 Th, 228 Th and 40 K along the beaches of Kavala being adjacent to the rock-types of the Kavala pluton. These ranged from 14-940, 16-1710, 26-4547, 27-4488 and 194-1307 Bq/kg respectively, representing the highest values of natural radioactivity measured in sediments of Greece. The (%wt.) heavy magnetic (HM) (allanite, amphibole, mica, clinopyroxene, magnetite and hematite) fraction, the heavy non-magnetic (HNM) (monazite, zircon, titanite and apatite) fraction and the total heavy fraction (TH), were correlated with the concentrations of the measured radionuclides in the bulk samples. for local people working on the beach.

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Natural radioactivity distribution and gammaradiation exposure of beach sands close to Kavalapluton, Greece

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“…Accordingly, a large number of data exist on the activity concentrations of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in many areas of the world (UNSCEAR 2000) as well as Turkey. Mostly, reported data in Turkey are only related to the agricultural, rural and urban soils; granitic, volcanic, metamorphic rocks and beach-based environment (Canbaz 2007;Ö rgün et al 2007;Yaprak and Aslani 2010;Canbaz et al 2010), while the studies on forest environment are less commonly available Yaprak 2007b, 2008a, b). The present study is therefore the first systematic effort to establish the background radiation levels in the coniferous forest sites of Aegean Region.…”

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Activity concentrations of natural radionuclides and 137Cs in soils of coniferous forest sites in West Anatolia

Karadeniz

Yaprak

2010

Eur J Forest Res

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The surveys of natural gamma-emitting radionuclides and 137 Cs in surface soils of coniferous forest sites in and around Izmir were conducted during 2003-2004. The soil samples were collected from three different depths of 15 forest sites, particularly local wild edible mushrooms areas. The average activity concentrations and ranges of the natural radionuclides in the soils were as follows: 30 (14-51) Bq kg -1 of 226 Ra; 40 (17-79) Bq kg -1 of 232 Th; and 581 (308-879) Bq kg -1 of 40 K. Moreover, the values of 137 Cs activity concentrations averaged over the depth sections varied from 20 to 82 Bq kg -1 with a mean value of 52 Bq kg -1 . Accordingly, the levels of the studied natural radionuclides in the forest soils were within the range specified by UNSCEAR (2000) report for regular soils as well as the agricultural soils from the West Anatolia, while the measured activity levels of 137 Cs in the forest soils were still high in contrast to agricultural soils after 16 years from the deposition of Chernobyl fallout.

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“…The H ex map involves a minimum value of 0.08 associated with costal-eolian sabkhas and a maximum value of 0.79 coincided with black-sand lens. The obtained values of H ex for the area under consideration ( Table 5) are found to be less than the world permissible value of unity [28]. This indicates that the values will not lead to respiratory diseases, such as: asthma and cancer and external diseases such as: erythema, skin cancer and cataracts [35].…”

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“…The outdoor occupancy factor is taken equal to 0.2 [27] [28]. The potential annual effective dose equivalent in outdoor ambient is given by the following equation [30]:…”

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Processing of Landsat 8 Imagery and Ground Gamma-Ray Spectrometry for Geologic Mapping and Dose-Rate Assessment, Wadi Diit along the Red Sea Coast, Egypt

Gawad¹,

Donia²,

Elsaid³

2016

OJG

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Maximum Likelihood (MLH) supervised classification of atmospherically corrected Landsat 8 imagery was applied successfully for delineating main geologic units with a good accuracy (about 90%) according to reliable ground truth areas, which reflected the ability of remote sensing data in mapping poorly-accessed and remote regions such as playa (Sabkha) environs, subdued topography and sand dunes. Ground gamma-ray spectrometric survey was to delineate radioactive anomalies within Quaternary sediments at Wadi Diit. The mean absorbed dose rate (D), annual effective dose equivalent (AEDE) and external hazard index (Hex) were found to be within the average worldwide ranges. Therefore, Wadi Diit environment is said to be radiological hazard safe except at the black-sand lens whose absorbed dose rate of 100.77 nGy/h exceeds the world average. So, the inhabitants will receive a relatively high radioactive dose generated mainly by monazite and zircon minerals from black-sand lens.

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Natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in rocks and beach sands from Ezine region (Çanakkale), Western Anatolia, Turkey

Cited by 210 publications

References 26 publications

Natural radioactivity distribution and gammaradiation exposure of beach sands close to Kavalapluton, Greece

Natural radioactivity distribution and gammaradiation exposure of beach sands close to Kavalapluton, Greece

Activity concentrations of natural radionuclides and 137Cs in soils of coniferous forest sites in West Anatolia

Processing of Landsat 8 Imagery and Ground Gamma-Ray Spectrometry for Geologic Mapping and Dose-Rate Assessment, Wadi Diit along the Red Sea Coast, Egypt

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