ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF URANIUM AND THORIUM IN THE ZONE OF HYPERGENESIS. INVESTIGATION OF FOSSIL BONES, SOIL AND SHELLS OF MOLLUSKS (in Russian)
The ratio of Th isotopes (Io,/sup -/UX/sub 1/, Th/sup 232/, RdTh) and U isotopes (U/sup 234/ and U/sup 238/) in natural waters, fossil bones, and soils, as well as in shells of fresh-water mollusks of the Paleolithic site Molodovo and other areas of the Dniester foreland was investigated. In the waters of Molodovo are distinguished waters of neogenic limestones with a low value of gamma =U/sup 234//U/sup 238/ = 10.3 x 10.5 and waters of the Paleozoic: gamma = 1.34, apparently feeding the quarternary stratum. The mineralization of fossil bones was realized in the Upper Paleolith by waters with low values and in the Middle Paleolith by waters with high gamma -values. Uranium migration was confirmed by the investigation of the radioelement ratios in fossil bones of the sites Molodovo I and Molodovo V. This process apparently did not affect the Mousterian layers of the site Molodovo V, so that the age of the layers, according to Io/UX/sub 1/ and gamma , equaling 130 thousand years, is near to the truth. The age of the fossil soil of the lower horizon of Molodovo I (end of Riss -RissWurm) is more than 260 thousand years. In the shells of fresh-water mollusks an intensive migration of U and Ra isotopes occurs For example, an exceptional high value RdTh/Th = 12.3 450 deg C in a 0.9 (activity units) was obtained. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Geological Inst., Moscow
- NSA Number:
- NSA-17-021917
- OSTI ID:
- 4718473
- Journal Information:
- Geokhimiya (U.S.S.R.) For English translation 1956-63 see Geochemistry (USSR), Vol. Vol: No. 3; Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-63
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- Russian
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