Distribution of uranium- and thorium series radionuclides in mineral phases of a weathered lateritic transect of a uranium ore body

Chemical Geology

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-240

  Von Gunten, Hans R ^a   Roessler, Elfriede ^a   Lowson, Richard T ^b   Reid, Peter D ^b   Short, Stephen A ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c Forbes Righby   (Australia)

Author keywords

228Th; 230Th; 232Th; 234U; 238U; Radioactive disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

DISEQUILIBRIUM; LATERITE; ORE BODY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033543060     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00062-5     Document Type: Article

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