Geochemical Behavior and Evaluation for Radioactive Waste Disposal
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 February 2023) | Viewed by 2752
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gamma spectrometry; gross alpha-beta; radon
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
This Special Issue will focus on all areas relating to the investigation of the chemical composition of minerals, radiometric age dating of minerals, and characterization of geologic, environmental, and anthropogenic samples.
It will provide new insights into the conditions of mineral formation/paragenesis at various temperature and pressure regimes, including interactions of minerals with the geosphere (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere). Studies may use either novel or standard analytical, imaging, diffraction, microscopic, spectroscopic, synchrotron, and computer modeling techniques.
For example, the basis of radiometric geochronology is that a radioactive parent element, such as uranium, is incorporated as trace amounts into a mineral when it forms in the Earth’s crust. Over time, that parent element will decay to a stable daughter element, such as lead, which ideally will be locked inside the mineral. By measuring the amount of the parent and daughter elements in a sample and applying the known rate of decay for that radioactive parent, the age at which the mineral formed can be calculated.
Dr. Ileana Radulescu
Dr. Carmen Alexandra Tuca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radionuclide chemistry
- natural and artificial radionuclides
- ICP-MS
- radiocarbon dating
- major, minor and trace elements
- geochronology
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