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Hydrochemistry On A Waste Disposal Area Of Sand Mining Activities At Analandia, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, And Their Implications On The Mobilization Of Uranium

Price

Free (open access)

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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