Several decades of intensive rainfed farming in Mediterranean mountains and later land
abandonment has led to rapid land use and land cover changes. During recent centuries …

Coal-fly-ash is one of the major byproducts of coal-based power plant in which naturally
occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) are drastically enriched compared to those of feed …

Abstract The natural radioactivity (238 U, 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K) and radon emanation
coefficient for 57 soil samples belonging to alluvial, red, forest surface, slip-debris …

In slopes of Mediterranean mid-mountain areas, land use and land cover changes linked to
the abandonment of cropland activity affect soil quality and degradation and soil …

The aims of this study were to investigate the vertical distributions of natural radionuclides
232Th, 226Ra and 40K as well as anthropogenic radionuclide 137Cs in soil samples and to …

Mountain wetlands in Mediterranean regions are particularly threatened in agricultural
environments due to anthropogenic activity. An integrated study of source-to-sink sediment …

The study found that the activity concentrations of the radionuclides 238U, 232Th and 40K in
the sandstone are 32±13, 29.6±12.2, and 132.6±86.4 Bq kg− 1, respectively. These values …

This work presents the natural radioactivity distribution of 21 surface soil samples taken in
the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The analysis for radioactivity was performed using a gas low …

During the years 2001 and 2010, the content of 238 U, 226 Ra, 232 Th, 40 K and 137 Cs in
agricultural soil and soil geochemical characteristics were measured on 50 locations in …

Argillic alteration and hematitization are the two extensive alterations that affected Um Safi
rhyolite flow tuffs. Rare metal mineralization including radioactive minerals (thorite …