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Radon Over Volcanic and Seismic Areas

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Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Environment

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAIV,volume 5))

Abstract

After focusing on die need for clear precursory signals of both volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, it is given a brief history of the investigations related to radon anomalies associated with large magnitude events. It is followed by some consideration about the field Rn measurement techniques and a new approach is proposed for ground measurements based on recent experiments. The last part of the survey deals with the possible mechanisms that could explain the existence of precursory signals. A large part of it is devoted to the description of a new soliton based model that could offer a new way of investigation. This model is based upon modern thermo-poro-elesticity theory. The anomalies are considered as being due to the build up of a buried thermo-mechanical source which in turn gives rise to the upsurge of a thermo-mechanical soliton, a sort of a fluid solitary wave that can perturbate a pre-existing stationary radon profile, resulting in a steep local radon concentration variation.

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Monnin, M.M. (2001). Radon Over Volcanic and Seismic Areas. In: Frontasyeva, M.V., Perelygin, V.P., Vater, P. (eds) Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Environment. NATO Science Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0993-5_44

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