Monday, 26 January 2015

A voyage from the Earth's crust to its mantle and back again

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A voyage from the Earth's crust to its mantle and back again
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 21, 2015 - From the beginning of time, uranium has been part of the Earth and, thanks to its long-lived radioactivity, it has proven ideal to date geological processes and deduce Earth's evolution. Natural uranium consists of two long-lived isotopes uranium-238 and the lighter uranium-235. A new study of the global cycle of these uranium isotopes brings additional perspectives to the debate on how th ... more


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