The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230

Chemical Geology - Tập 169 Số 1-2 - Trang 17-33 - 2000
Hai Cheng1, R. Lawrence Edwards1, John A. Hoff1, C. C. Gallup2, David A. Richards3, Yemane Asmerom4
1Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 108 Pillsbury Hall, 310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
2Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
3School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA

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