Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 16 January 2015

Volume 13, Issue 2 (36 Articles)

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# 36 - The terrestrial uranium isotope cycle
- Examination of the global uranium cycle —, whereby uranium from the Earth’s crust is first transported to the oceans and then returned, by subduction, to the mantle —, shows that the subducted uranium is isotopically distinct from the Earth as a whole and that this signature has been stirred throughout upper mantle, arguably within the past 600 million years.
- Nature - Volume: 517, Issue: 7534
- 246-406

This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0026204.