Journal of Petrology Volume 42 Number 4 Pages 853-854 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001
Book Review
School of the Environment, University of Leeds
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Uranium: Mineralogy, Geochemistry and the Environment, edited by P. C. Burns and R. Finch. Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 38. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1999. 679 pp. ISBN 0-939950-50-2. US$32.00, MSA members US$24.00
This book was written in preparation for a short course of the same title held by the Mineralogical Society of America in October 1999. However, at 679 pp. the book has become an extensive reference work. The book takes the form of a series of distinct, in-depth contributions in a range of fields associated with current mineralogical, geochemical and environmental research into uranium behaviour. The book begins with a general introduction to radioactivity and