Concentric rings of radioactive halo in chlorite, Turamdih uranium deposit, Singhbhum Shear Zone, Eastern India: A possible result of 238U chain decay

Current Science

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 662-667

  Pal, Dipak C ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

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