Evolution of uranium fractionation processes through time: Driving the secular variation of uranium deposit types

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 553-569

  Cuney, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ATMOSPHERIC LEVELS; ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; CALCRETES; CONTINENTAL BASINS; FRACTIONATION MECHANISM; FRACTIONATION PROCESS; FREE OXYGEN; GAS RESERVOIR; GRANODIORITE; HEAVY MINERALS; HEXAVALENT URANIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; LAND PLANTS; NEAR-SURFACE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PARTS PER MILLIONS; PERALUMINOUS; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; REDOX PROCESS; SECULAR VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TI OXIDES; TONALITE; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; URANYL IONS;

DEPOSITS; GRANITE; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MONAZITE DEPOSITS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PLACERS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; THORIUM DEPOSITS; URANIUM; WATER SUPPLY; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

URANIUM DEPOSITS;

CRETACEOUS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; URANIUM;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 78149437654     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.553     Document Type: Article

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