Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

S. D. Chatterjee ¹, Partha Banerji ¹

Affiliations
1 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta-32, IN

Abstract

The radium content of river waters collected from eighteen different Indian rivers has been measured. The river water can usually be classified into two categories: limpid and turbid. The radium content of limpid waters has been found to be lower (∼10^-16g/ml) than that of its turbid Partner (∼10^-15g/ml). In the latter case, the radium contents both of the filtered component and the sediment have been separately measured. The sediment invariably exhibits a higher value.

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