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Analysis of River Sediments from the Tigre River (Venezuela) by Radioisotope Excited X-ray Fluorescence*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

J. J. LaBrecque ,
H. Schorin  and
P. A. Rosales
J. J. LaBrecque
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, IVIC Apartado 1827, Caracas 1010-A Venezuela
H. Schorin
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, IVIC Apartado 1827, Caracas 1010-A Venezuela
P. A. Rosales
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, IVIC Apartado 1827, Caracas 1010-A Venezuela
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The chemical and mineral analyses of river and stream sediments are often employed for geochemical exploration. Their contents are considered to be representative of part or all of the catchment area. In environmental science the analysis of sediments provides information concerning the hydrochemical and ecological interactions of the water and their changes with time. Local and/or time dependent contamination of water bodies can also be determined by analysis of their sediments.

In this work, we have first performed qualitative elemental scans by both energy dispersive (radioisotope excited) and conventional wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence of the different grain size fractions.

Type
VI. XRF Applications: Mineralogical, General
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 185 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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