Relationships between sea-bed radionuclide activities and some sedimentological variables |
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Authors: | Ligero R A Ramos-Lerate I Barrera M Casas-Ruiz M |
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Institution: | Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Cadiz, Puerto Real-Cádiz, Spain. |
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Abstract: | Natural radionuclides (232Th, 226Ra, 40K) and 137Cs, coming from atmospheric radioactive fallout, have been measured in sea-bed sediments of the Bay of Cádiz (South Western Spain). In this report, multivariate analysis methods have been employed to study the relationships between the activities of the radionuclides and some sedimentological variables like granulometric facies, organic content and apparent density. The correlation functions found show that it is possible to determine, with a satisfactory degree of approximation, the granulometric facies of the sediments using only radiometric information. |
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