Crystal chemistry and radiation-induced amorphizatlon of p-coflnlte from the natural fission reactor at bangombe, gabon

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 827-836

  Deditius, Artur P ^a,d   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^b   Wall, Matthew A ^a   Pointeau, Veronique ^c   Ewing, Rodney C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DEN SAC DPC SECR Laboratory of Nuclear Isotopic and Elementary Analyses   (France)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangombe; Coffinite; Natural fission reactor; Phosphatian coffinite; Uraninite

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ELECTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; TRANSMISSIONS;

BANGOMBE; COFFINITE; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL FISSION REACTORS; NATURAL NUCLEAR REACTOR; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; URANINITE;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PHOSPHORUS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANINITE;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 68549120882     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3114     Document Type: Article

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