Chemistry of uranium, thorium, and radium isotopes in the Ganga-Brahmaputra river system: Weathering processes and fluxes to the Bay of Bengal

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta - Tập 54 Số 5 - Trang 1387-1396 - 1990
M.M. Sarin1, S. Krishnaswami1, B.L.K. Somayajulu1, Willard S. Moore2
1Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 380009, India
2University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

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