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Special works on radioecology has been conducted in Azerbaijan since 1988. To determine high-radioactive areas in the central part of Big Baku and Sumgayit city there were conducted detailed gamma-survey. As a result of that contaminated areas were determined. Some of them were liquidated. The radioactive environment in the territory of the Kura depression, in the Pri-Caspian-Guba zone and in the Greater Caucasus was studied as well. There was determined that normal radioactive background in the Absheron peninsula varies 4-10 mcR/h. It becomes higher in the areas of outcropping of Oligocene-Miocene layers (20-25 mcR/h) and lower in the zone of beach sands (3 mcR/h). The background radioactivity in the territory of Azerbaijan varies in the same range. This is typical for the most of regions throughout the world.
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Aliyev, C.S. (2003). Problems of radioecology in azerbaijan. In: Birsen, N., Kadyrzhanov, K.K. (eds) Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution. NATO Science Series, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0975-1_7
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