Low-temperature isotopic fractionation of uranium

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 208-225

  Stirling, Claudine H ^a   Andersen, Morten B ^a   Potter, Emma Kate ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

235U 238U; fractionation; low temperature; MC ICPMS; uranium isotopes

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC PROCESSES; SPELEOTHEMS; ZERO-VALENT ZINC;

CHRONOMETERS; FRACTIONATION; LEACHING; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; REDOX REACTIONS; WEATHERING;

URANIUM;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; KINETICS; LEACHING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OXIDATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 36049011344     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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