Sediment residence times in catchments draining to the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, inferred by uranium comminution dating

Authors :: Anthony Dosseto
Ashley Martin
Leslie Kinsley
Jan-Hendrik May
John D. Jansen
Allan R. Chivas
Source :: N. Martin, A, Dosseto, A, May, J H, Jansen, J, P. J. Kinsley, L & R. Chivas, A 2019, ' Sediment residence times in catchments draining to the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia inferred by uranium comminution dating ', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 244, pp. 264-291 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.031
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2019.
Abstract: Uranium (U) isotopes are useful for constraining the timescales of weathering and erosion processes. The (234U/238U) activity ratio (parentheses denote activity ratio) of fine-grained detrital minerals is proposed to record the time elapsed since mineral grains were reduced to

Subjects :: Carpentaria
Mineral
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
biology
Geochemistry
chemistry.chemical_element
Sediment
Weathering
Secular equilibrium
Uranium
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
chemistry
Geochemistry and Petrology
Erosion
Comminution
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences

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