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Uranium in Recent Japanese Sediments

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CONSIDERING the amount of work that has been done concerning the uranium content in recent marine or lacustrine sediments, especially during the past decade, the available data are rather less than for uranium of rocks or mineral assemblages1–3.

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SUGIMURA, Y., SUGIMURA, T. Uranium in Recent Japanese Sediments. Nature 194, 568–569 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194568a0

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