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- Title
ASSESSMENT OF RADON AND THORON EXHALATION FROM SOILS AND DISSOLVED RADON IN GROUND WATER IN THE VICINITY OF ELEVATED GRANITIC HILL, CHIKKABALLAPUR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA.
- Authors
Poojitha, C G; Sahoo, B K; Ganesh, K E; Pranesha, T S; Sapra, B K
- Abstract
In this paper, we intend to evaluate the rate of radon and thoron exhalation from soil with reference to the underlying bedrock and gamma dose rate in the environment of elevated granitic hill—Nandi hills of Karnataka. The measurement of exhalation rates for all the soil samples collected from study area was carried out using a continuous radon–thoron monitor (Smart RnDuo monitor). The surface exhalation rate of thoron from soil samples were found to vary from 4160 ± 326 to 21 822 ± 634 mBq m−2 s−1. The mass exhalation rate of radon from soil samples were found to vary from 76 ± 6 to 269 ± 19 mBq kg−1 h−1. Concentrations of radon activity measurements were carried out for all the groundwater samples from study area. A detailed analysis along with physicochemical parameters of water has been made and discussed in this research paper.
- Subjects
KARNATAKA (India); INDIA; GROUNDWATER; THORON; RADON; SOIL air; SOIL sampling; GROUNDWATER sampling
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2020, Vol 190, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncaa099