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Exploring the unusual uranium enrichment zones in the Thar Desert, India, using remote sensing, GIS and gamma-ray spectroscopy

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Title Exploring the unusual uranium enrichment zones in the Thar Desert, India, using remote sensing, GIS and gamma-ray spectroscopy
 
Creator BHARTI, R
RAMAKRISHNAN, D
 
Subject EVAPORITE MINERALS
WESTERN-AUSTRALIA
PLAYA
GROUNDWATER
EXPLORATION
RAJASTHAN
BASIN
WATER
LUNI
 
Description In this work, unusual enrichment of uranium and thorium in duricrusts associated with palaeochannels, palaeo alluvial plains and delta of the Thar Desert, India, is investigated. Optical and microwave satellite data, digital elevation model and 3D geographic information system were used to identify exposed, buried channels and associated duricrusts. It is evident from field radiometric surveys, geochemistry of soil and groundwater samples that zones of higher uranium (max 190ppm) and thorium (max 142ppm) concentration exist in the Thar. These enrichments are unusual and could be of economic significance.
 
Publisher TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
 
Date 2016-01-15T08:12:49Z
2016-01-15T08:12:49Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, 6(7)509-518
2150-704X
2150-7058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2015.1051629
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/18136
 
Language en