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Uranium Distribution in Siwalik Vertebrates using Fission Track Technique


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1 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 15, Municipal Road, Dehradun 248001, India
2 Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 132 119, India
     

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Uranium distribution in Vertebrate Fossils from the Siwaliks of NW-Himalaya has been worked out using Fission Track Method. Uranium is found to be uniformly distributed in collophane and ferruginous material of the bone and a sympathetic relationship between uranium and collophane content has been observed. Percolating waters which leached uranium and phosphorus from the granitic matrix (80 to 90%) of the Siwalik sandstones appear to have brought about diagenesis, uranium mineralization and fossilisation of the organic remains in the Siwalik sediments.
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Kewal K. Sharma
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 15, Municipal Road, Dehradun 248001, India
Vinay M. Chousey
Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 132 119, India
O. P. Sharma
Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 132 119, India
K. K. Nagpaul
Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 132 119, India

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Uranium distribution in Vertebrate Fossils from the Siwaliks of NW-Himalaya has been worked out using Fission Track Method. Uranium is found to be uniformly distributed in collophane and ferruginous material of the bone and a sympathetic relationship between uranium and collophane content has been observed. Percolating waters which leached uranium and phosphorus from the granitic matrix (80 to 90%) of the Siwalik sandstones appear to have brought about diagenesis, uranium mineralization and fossilisation of the organic remains in the Siwalik sediments.