海洋沉积物光释光测年中铀、钍、钾的γ能谱法分析

测量样品的放射性核素(238U、232Th和40K)含量并用于计算环境剂量率,是光释光测年方法中非常重要的步骤。本研究比较了电感耦合等离子体质谱和发射光谱法以及高纯锗γ能谱法对一系列海洋沉积物中铀、钍、钾含量的测量结果和环境剂量率计算结果。研究表明,多道高纯锗γ能谱仪测量铀、钍、钾的精确度和准确度较高。不同分析方法得到的测量结果高度一致,通过计算得到的环境剂量率也无显著差别。放射性核素活度浓度和质量浓度的理论比值与实验比值之间差距很小,两种方法几乎没有系统误差。γ能谱法制样更简单,还能了解样品是否处于的放射性平衡状态,是值得推广研究的环境剂量率测量方法。     

钍—茜素氨羧络合剂极谱络合吸附波的研究

在邻苯二甲酸氢钾和醋酸混合底液(pH5.0)中,钍与茜素氨羧络合剂(ALC)形成电活性络合物,在单扫描极谱仪上于-0.60V(vs.SCE)产生一灵敏的络合吸附波,其二阶导数峰高与钍的浓度在3.0×10-8～3.0×10-6mol/L呈线性关系,检出限为1.5×10-8mol/L。用等摩尔连续变化法测得该络合物的摩尔比为nTh(Ⅳ)∶nALC=1∶1,并探讨了极谱波的性质和电极反应机理。方法用于矿石和粘土中痕量钍的测定,RSD(n=5)4%,加标回收试验,回收率为101.5%～103.2%。     

安徽庐江砖桥科学深钻内的铀钍赋存状态研究

2012年深部探测项目SinoProbe-03-06在安徽省庐江县砖桥地区实施了2012 m科学深钻,在钻孔深部正长岩中发现铀钍异常,局部已达工业边界品位。系统的岩芯观测、显微镜下研究以及电子探针分析揭示,铀钍的赋存状态主要有2种：一种呈铀钍的独立矿物如铀钛矿、铀钍石、晶质铀矿形式存在;另一种以类质同象形式赋存于锆石、磷灰石、金红石等副矿物中。独立铀钍矿物主要呈2种形式产出：一种呈自形赋存于钠长石中,常与锆石在空间上伴生;另一种主要呈微细颗粒散布于金红石、磷灰石、硬石膏等热液蚀变矿物中。与铀钍矿化相关的蚀变主要有钠长石化、电气石化、硬石膏化等高温热液蚀变。砖桥深钻距庐枞盆地南缘铀矿床（点）不远,且均与正长岩有关,虽然两者的铀钍矿化、铀钍比值、赋存状态、蚀变矿化等一系列特征均存在差异,但两者之间可能存在成因联系,科学深钻所揭示出的铀钍矿化可能代表了铀钍在盆地深部岩体中的高温成矿样式。     

中国铀、钍、钾元素地球化学场特征及与铀矿化关系

一直以来,利用铀、钍、钾同位素的γ能谱寻找铀矿是铀矿地质重要的放射性物探手段。同样,水系沉积物化探中铀、钍、钾元素作为铀矿化探重要指示元素,在铀矿资源潜力预测评价中亦发挥了重要作用。笔者论述了水系沉积物铀、钍、钾元素在铀矿预测评价中的指示作用和异常特点,以及中国铀、钍、钾元素地球化学场分布特点和规律,将铀、钍、钾异常按累频占比划分为特高异常(异常内带)、高异常(异常中带)、异常(异常外带)和高背景,同时,论证了铀、钍、钾异常分布与铀成矿关系。可以看出,铀、钍、钾异常分布有明显的区域特征,现有的异常分布区与我国四大类型铀矿产区高度一致,其异常分布对我国铀、钍矿资源预测评价具有重要意义。     

Correlations between U, Th Content and Metamorphic Grade in the Western Namaqualand Belt, South Africa, with Implications for Radioactive Heating of the Crust

The digital image of airborne radiometric data across SouthAfrica reveals that the largest anomaly, 100 nGy/h, is causedby the granulite-facies rocks of the Namaquan metamorphic complex,whereas most of the country is <60 nGy/h. This observationis consistent with geochemical data that show that the 1900± 100 Ma greenschist-facies Richtersveld Terrane nearNamibia (max. U = 3·4 ppm; Th = 20·1 ppm) andthe adjacent, 1100 ± 100 Ma, amphibolite-facies Aggeneys/SteinkopfTerranes (max. U 10 ppm; Th 52 ppm) are the least enrichedin U, Th and K. In contrast, the lower-T granulite-facies OkiepTerrane near Springbok hosts more enriched granites (max. U 17 ppm; Th 66 ppm) and noritic intrusions (max. U = 14 ppm;Th = 83 ppm). The most enriched rocks are found in the 1030Ma higher-T granulite-facies core of the Namaquan belt and includequartzo-feldspathic gneisses (max. U = 46 ppm; Th = 90 ppm)and charnockites (max. U = 52 ppm; Th = 400 ppm). Our findingscontradict the notion that granulite-facies terrains are characteristicallydepleted in U and Th. In this study we modeled the heat productionin the core of the Namaquan complex, where the granulites havehad a very unusual metamorphic history, and show that ultra-high-T(1000°C, P 10 kbar) metamorphic conditions could have beenachieved by radiogenic heating without invoking external heatsources. However, monazite-rich veins of charnockite and patchesof granulites mark the passage of CO₂-dominated melts and fluidsderived from fractionated noritic intrusions. KEY WORDS: charnockite; granulite; Namaqualand; thorium; uranium; radioactive heating; metamorphism     

新试剂二溴邻硝基偶氮胂光度测定矿石中的钍

本文介绍了用新显色剂二溴邻硝基偶氮胂光度测定矿石中Th的方法。在0.2mol/L HCl介质中,Th与新试剂形成蓝色配合物,在630nm处具有最大吸收,摩尔吸光系数为9.7×10~4L·mol~(-1)·cm~(-1),配合物的组成Th:R=1:2,Th量在0—15μg/25ml范围内符合比耳定律。许多常见的金属离子在几毫克乃至十几毫克时不干扰测定。方法用于矿石中Th的测定能获得满意的结果。     

460火山岩盆地的地质发展与铀,钍演化

在总结460火山岩盆地地质特征和构造-岩浆活动发展历史的基础上。研究了各时代岩石中铀、钍的演化规律。提出该区晚太古代基底岩石的钾质混合岩化所引起的铀、钍增量是影响其后盖屋火山岩演化和铀成矿的物质基础;具有壳源重熔成因的上侏罗统酸性火山岩盖层,由于分布广泛,厚度巨大,有多种告石组台和多样的岩性序列,以及铀、钍含量高,构成了该区铀成矿有利的地层背景;燕山晚期沿区域断裂侵入的高铀酸性次火山岩或小侵入体,是该区成矿定位的决定因崇,它本身常成为赋矿的有刊围岩;后期热液铀成矿是使地层和岩体中铀和钍最终发生分离的主要地质作用。     

Uranium and thorium isotopes in the rivers of the Amazonian basin: hydrology and weathering processes

Two expeditions (October 1989 and May 1992) were carried out to two points of the main Amazon River channel and four tributaries. The Solimões and Madeira rivers, taking their origin in the Andes, are whitewater rivers. The Negro River is a typical acid, blackwater river. The Trombetas River flows through bauxite‐rich areas, and is characterized by low concentrations of dissolved humic substances. The ²³⁸U, ²³⁴U, ²³²Th and ²³⁰Th activities were recorded from dissolved, suspended particulate phases and river bank sediments. The latter were analysed for their ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra and ²¹⁰Pb contents, and also subjected to leaching with 0·2 M hydroxylamine–hydrochloride solution to determine the concentrations of radionuclides bound to amorphous Fe hydroxides and Mn oxides and hydroxides. The dissolved U average concentration in the Amazon system is ten times lower than the mean world river concentration. The uranium concentration observed at Óbidos in the lower Amazon (0·095 µg L^?1), where the U content in the river bank sediments and suspended matter is lowest, suggests U release from the solid phase during river transport. About 485 t of U are transported annually to the Amazon delta area in dissolved form, and 1943 t bound to suspended particulate matter. Total U and Th concentrations in the river bank sediments ranged from 1·59 to 7·14 µg g^?1 and from 6·74 to 32 µg g^?1, respectively. The highest concentrations were observed in the Trombetas River. The proportion extracted by means of the hydroxylamine solution (HL) was relatively high for U in the Trombetas river bank sediment (31%) and for Th in the Solimões sediment (30%). According to the alpha recoil effects, the ²³⁴U/²³⁸U activity ratios of the Andean river waters and downstream Amazon water (Óbidos) were >1, but were <1 in the Negro River (at Manaus). The activity ratios of dissolved U correlate with pH and also with the U activity ratios in the river bank sediment hydroxylamine extracts. As expected, the ²³⁴U/²³⁸U activity ratios in river bank sediments were <1 in the Andean rivers and in the downstream Amazon, but they were >1 in the Trombetas and Negro rivers. Such ratios probably result from the binding of dissolved uranium to solid sediment. The ²²⁸Th/²³²Th ratios of river bank sediments were close to unity (except for the Negro River, where it is lower), suggesting no significant Th exchanges between the river water and the sediment. The ²²⁶Ra/²³²Th activity ratios were <1, and the ²²⁶Ra/²²⁸Ra activity ratios generally were significantly higher than the activity ratios of their respective parents. This perhaps is the result of easier leaching of the ²²⁶Ra parent, ²³⁰Th, from solid material (owing to the alpha recoil effect) than of the ²²⁸Ra parent. Uranium and thorium isotopes were used as tools to evaluate the chemical weathering rate of rocks in the Amazon system, which was estimated to be 2·7 cm 1000 year^?1 s^?1. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Radioactivity of the Earth and the Case for Potassium in the Earth’s Core

The radioactivity of the earth is an important parameter in understanding the dynamics of the planet and the evolution of the crust–mantle–core system but geochemical and geophysical approaches have had only a limited success in defining it. The opportunity of a direct estimate of the radioactivity of the earth by measurement of the geoneutrino flux takes on an added significance in this context. Such an independent new measurement will help resolve and/or clarify a number of questions about global scale processes in the earth and will help advance earth sciences.     

Influence of particle composition on thorium scavenging in the marginal China seas

Thorium-234 and particle composition (organic matter, biogenic silica, carbonate and lithogenic component) were examined in the East China Sea (ECS) and the northern South China Sea (NSCS) in order to constrain the particle types scavenging thorium isotopes. Good positive correlations between particulate organic matter (POM) or carbonate and thorium-234 in suspended particulate matter (SPM) indicates that POM and carbonate are efficient to scavenge thorium-234. No relationship between biogenic silica and thorium-234 suggests that geochemical behavior of thorium-234 may be not influenced by biogenic silica. A simple model was used to evaluate the affinity of thorium-234 to different particle components. The results show that POM is the most efficient scavenger for thorium-234 in the ECS and the NSCS, followed by carbonate. The authors'' results lend support to the utility of thorium-234 as a proxy of POC and carbonate in the upper layer. However, the strong dependence of thorium scavenging on particle composition challenges thorium-230 as a constant flux proxy.