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Science 29 November 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3857, pp. 997 - 999
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3857.997
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Uranium Disequilibrium in Groundwater: An Isotope Dilution Approach in Hydrologic Investigations

J. K. Osmond 1, H. S. Rydell 1, and M. I. Kaufman 1

1 Department of Geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306

The distribution and environmental disequilibrium patterns of naturally occurring uranium isotopes (U234 and U238) in waters of the Floridan aquifer suggest that variations in the ratios of isotopic activity and concentrations can be used quantitatively to evaluate mixing proportions of waters from differing sources. Uranium is probably unique in its potential for this approach, which seems to have general usefulness in hydrologic investigations.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Alpha-Recoil Thorium-234: Dissolution into Water and the Uranium-234/Uranium-238 Disequilibrium in Nature.
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