Uranium Deposits of the World USA and Latin America /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahlkamp, Franz J. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Temas:
Mineralogy.
Geology.
Nuclear engineering.
Nuclear Energy.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Remarks, Definitions, Units
  • Organization of the Volume
  • Confidence of Data
  • Citing of Authors
  • Bibliography
  • Geological, Mineralogical, Mining and Related Terms
  • Terminology of U Resources
  • National Resource Data
  • Terminology of Resources for Individual Deposits
  • Conversion Factors
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I: Uranium Deposits in U.S.A.
  • Overview
  • Historical Review of Uranium in U.S.A.
  • Principal Characteristics and Distribution of Types of Uranium Deposits in USA
  • Colorado Plateau
  • Grants Uranium Region/San Juan Basin, South-Eastern Colorado Plateau
  • Wyoming Basins
  • Black Hills
  • Northern Great Plains
  • Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Colorado and Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Basin and Range Domain
  • McDermitt Caldera
  • South Texas Coastal Plains
  • Piedmont Domain
  • Bokan Mountain, Alaska
  • Florida (Phosphorite)
  • Georgia-North Carolina-South Carolina-Tennessee (Phosphorite)
  • Idaho-Montana-Utah-Wyoming (Phosphorite/Phosphoria Formation)
  • Kentucky-Tennessee-Alabama (Black Shale/Chattanooga Shale)
  • References and Further Reading for Part I: U.S.A
  • Part II: Uranium Deposits in Latin American Countries
  • Overview
  • Principal Characteristics and Distribution of Types of Uranium Deposits in Latin American .-Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Other Uranium Deposits/Occurrences in Latin America
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locality
  • Index Subject
  • Index Uranium and Uraniferous Minerals.

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