Uranium comminution ages: Sediment transport and deposition time scales

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 678-687

  DePaolo, Donald J ^a   Lee, Victoria E ^b   Christensen, John N ^c   Maher, Kate ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Geochronology; Recoil loss of uranium; Sediment transport; Uranium isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BEDROCK; COMMINUTION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; FENNOSCANDIA; ICELAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870726887     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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