Fractionation of 238U/235U by reduction during low temperature uranium mineralisation processes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 388, Issue , 2014, Pages 306-317

  Murphy, Melissa J ^a   Stirling, Claudine H ^b   Kaltenbach, Angela ^b   Turner, Simon P ^a   Schaefer, Bruce F ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

U238; Groundwater; Nuclear field shift effect; Ore deposit; Uranium isotopes; Water rock interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891594505     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.034     Document Type: Note

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