caa a22 4500 477094309 CHVBK 20180405111523.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01771284 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01771284 Lalor G. Centre for Nuclear Sciences, University of the West Indies Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica aut Geochemical mapping in Jamaica [Elektronische Daten] [G. Lalor] A high-precision regional geochemical data base of Jamaica is being developed as a basis for a wide variety of economic and environmental applications. These include pollution studies, resource identification and management, agriculture, land use, and the relationship between geochemistry and the health of crops, animals, and man. The acquisition of analytical data is mainly by instrumental neutron activation analysis using a SLOWPOKE reactor and by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence. Concentration ranges and means in soil are presented for 31 elements and maps illustrating the distributions of Al, Br, Co, and the γ-ray intensities are presented as examples. Compared with world averages the levels of many heavy metals in Jamaican soils are found to be relatively high and in the main strongly correlated with bauxite occurrences. The high content of bromine in the soils appears to reflect the impact of sea-spray. Chapman & Hall, 1996 Aluminium nationallicence bauxite nationallicence bromine nationallicence gamma intensities nationallicence geochemical mapping nationallicence Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/3(1996-09-01), 89-97 0269-4042 18:3<89 1996 18 10653 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01771284 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01771284 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lalor G. Centre for Nuclear Sciences, University of the West Indies Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/3(1996-09-01), 89-97 0269-4042 18:3<89 1996 18 10653 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer