Variations in 238U/235U in uranium ore deposits: Isotopic signatures of the U reduction process?

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 611-614

  Bopp IV, Charles John ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^a   Johnson, Thomas M ^a   Glessner, Justin J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CHEMICAL REDUCTION; FATE AND TRANSPORT; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MULTI-COLLECTOR; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; NUCLEAR FIELDS; REDUCTION PROCESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; URANIUM ORE; URANIUM ORE DEPOSIT;

DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE REDUCTION; ORES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

URANIUM DEPOSITS;

GROUNDWATER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; ORE DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REDUCTION; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 69649087084     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25550A.1     Document Type: Article

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