Uranium-series disequilibria as a means to study recent migration of uranium in a sandstone-hosted uranium deposit, NW China

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-125

  Min, Maozhong ^a   Peng, Xinjian ^b   Wang, Jinping ^b   Osmond, J K ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA NATIONAL NUCLEAR CORPORATION   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sandstone hosted uranium deposit; Uranium migration; Uranium series disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; GROUNDWATER; OXIDATION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM; REDUCTION; SANDSTONE; THORIUM;

ALPHA ACTIVITIES; MINERALIZATION; URANIUM DECAY; URANIUM ORES;

URANIUM DEPOSITS;

RADIUM 226; THORIUM 230; THORIUM 232; URANIUM; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 238;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LEACHING; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; STONE ANALYSIS;

EID: 18144423841     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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