Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8913628 | Journal of African Earth Sciences | 2018 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
The spectrometric prospection is a direct geophysical method based on the analysis of the radioactive elements spectra, due to three principal radioactive elements 40K, 238U and 232Th. In order to measure the content of radioactive elements a geophysical helicopter survey was carried out to a flight altitude of 60â¯m from the subsoil, covering the geological map of Tiouit 1/50000 with an extent of 45.5â¯Ãâ¯29â¯km2. In this paper, we propose an application in the environment and or occurrence by the production of maps concentration in K, U and Th to delimit the areas with purely natural radioactive risk by the calculation of the dose rate in mSv, the found values show a variation of 0,3 to 1.649 mSv with a median value of 0,831â¯mSv. Moreover, data processing as the horizontal gradient filter which allowed to amplify the spectrometric signatures, this one coupled to the upward continuation, lead us to a better location of the abrupt changes, which materialize by spectrometric lineaments, reflecting the change of the geochemical properties of the basement.
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Authors
Abdelhalim Miftah, Driss El Azzab, Ahmed Attou, Ahmed Manar, Ahmed Rachid, Haytam Ramhy,