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Radiological mapping in the granodiorite area of Bergama (Pergamon)-Kozak, Turkey

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As higher radiation levels are associated with granodiorite area and the maps are more practical to interpret the results of radiological survey, the distributions of the specific activities of 226Ra, 232Th, 40K in soil-granite samples and indoor 222Rn activities throughout the granodiorite area of Bergama (Pergamon) were mapped in detail. Samples from the granites and soils underlying Kozak-Bergama (Pergamon) granodiorite area were collected and analyzed by HPGe gamma spectrometry system, while indoor radon levels in 20 dwellings of rural areas at this area were measured by the alpha track etch integrated method. This paper represents the baseline maps of natural radioactivity levels (226Ra, 232Th, 40K and 222Rn) and corresponding absorbed dose rates from outdoors terrestrial gamma radiation.

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Acknowledgments

Grateful thanks are offered to the provider of financial support for the research presented here: Dokuz Eylül University Scientific Research Project (Project no: 2009.KB.FEN.039). The authors are also grateful to Prof. Dr. Günseli Yaprak for professional advice on several aspects of the Gamma spectroscopy and radon measurements, to Dr. Cem Kıncal for his indispensable help in drawing radiological maps and to the graduate and under graduate students; Miss. Nazan Çıyrak, Mrs. İpek Emen Zeytüncü, Mr. Yiğit Nalbant, Mr. Sadi Deniz Kayhan and Mr. Onur Büyükok for assisting in sample collection, preparation of granites and soils.

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    Özlem Karadeniz

  2. Department of Geological Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University, 35160 Tınaztepe, İzmir, Turkey

    Cüneyt Akal

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Karadeniz, Ö., Akal, C. Radiological mapping in the granodiorite area of Bergama (Pergamon)-Kozak, Turkey. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 302, 361–373 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3216-9

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