Hydrochemistry On A Waste Disposal Area Of Sand Mining Activities At Analandia, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, And Their Implications On The Mobilization Of Uranium
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Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
31
Pages
10
Published
1998
Size
998 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/RISK980071
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
D.M. Bonotto & E.G. de Oliveira
Abstract
Groundwaters and surface waters from an area of treatment of sand for industrial purposes at Analandia municipality, nearly in the center of Sao Paulo State, Brazil, were chemically and isotopically analysed with two aims: to evaluate if the anthropogenic activities that has taken place for the last 6 years is affecting the quality of the hydrological resources and to relate the hydrogeochemical behaviour of the uranium isotopes ^U and ^*U with the pattern of circulation of groundwaters. Introduction The Sao Paulo State in Brazil, due to its
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