Oxygen isotopic composition of nano-scale uraninite at the Oklo-Okélobondo natural fission reactors, Gabon

American Mineralogist

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1583-1590

  Fayek, Mostafa ^a,c   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^b   Riciputi, Lee R ^a,c   Jensen, Keld A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NANO-SCALE POROSITY; NATURAL FISSION REACTORS; NEAR SURFACES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GROUNDWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; URANINITE;

GABON;

EID: 0344530828     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2003-1021     Document Type: Article

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