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DURING recent investigations on the distribution of radioactive elements in phosphates1, it was noted that many of the Old Red Sandstone fish remains from north-east Scotland have an abnormally high radioactivity; in particular an unidentified Homostius plate (GSM 89090) was shown by rough radiometric assay to have an activity equivalent to 0.5 per cent U3O8.
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BOWIE, S., ATKIN, D. An Unusually Radioactive Fossil Fish from Thurso, Scotland. Nature 177, 487–488 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177487b0
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