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Article Dans Une Revue Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Année : 2003

Neutron flux variations near the Earth?s crust. A possible tectonic activity detection

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The present work contains some results of observations of neutron flux variations near the Earth?s surface. The Earth?s crust is determined to be a significant source of thermal and slow neutrons, originated from the interaction between the nuclei of the elements of the Earth?s crust and the atmosphere and ?-particles, produced by decay of radioactive gases (Radon, Thoron and Actinon). In turn, variations of radioactive gases exhalation is connected with geodynamical processes in the Earth?s crust, including tectonic activity. This determined relation between the processes in the Earth?s crust and neutrons? flux allow to use variations of thermal and slow neutrons? flux in order to observe increasing tectonic activity and to develop methods for short-term prediction of natural hazards.
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hal-00299083 , version 1 (18-06-2008)

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B. M. Kuzhevskij, O. Yu. Nechaev, E. A. Sigaeva, V. A. Zakharov. Neutron flux variations near the Earth?s crust. A possible tectonic activity detection. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2003, 3 (6), pp.637-645. ⟨hal-00299083⟩

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