The terrestrial uranium isotope cycle

Nature

Volumn 517, Issue 7534, 2015, Pages 356-359

  Andersen, Morten B ^a,b   Elliott, Tim ^a   Freymuth, Heye ^a   Sims, Kenneth W W ^c   Niu, Yaoling ^d   Kelley, Katherine A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; URANIUM; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OXIDATION; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BASALT; FRACTIONATION; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; OXIDATION; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SURFACE PROPERTY; WEATHERING;

EID: 84923169411     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14062     Document Type: Article

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