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Natural Radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, and 40K) in Soil-Forming Rocks in the European Part of Russia

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The ranges and average values of the specific activity of natural radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, and 40K) have been established in the main lithological types of soil-forming rocks (red–brown clays, loess, cover, glacial, lake–glacial, fluvioglacial, and alluvial deposits, and the eluvial–deluvial group of primary carbonate deposits). The lowest content of radionuclides is characteristic of alluvial and fluvioglacial deposits and their highest content is in lake–glacial, eluvial–deluvial carbonate deposits, and moraines. The inheritance of natural radionuclides by soil-forming rocks from weathering crusts has been revealed, which is most clearly manifested for rocks of glacial genesis and eluvial–deluvial carbonate deposits. The relationship between the content of radionuclides and the particle size distribution has been established.

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  1. Dokuchaev Central Soil Science Museum, Branch of the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. V. Mingareeva, B. F. Aparin & E. Yu. Sukhacheva

  2. All-Russia Research Institute of Radiology and Agroecology, Obninsk, Russia

    E. V. Mingareeva, S. V. Korovin & N. I. Sanzharova

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Mingareeva, E.V., Aparin, B.F., Korovin, S.V. et al. Natural Radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th, and 40K) in Soil-Forming Rocks in the European Part of Russia. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 49, 2397–2409 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359022120147

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