The relationship of uranium isotopes to oxidation/reduction in the Edwards carbonate aquifer of Texas

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The concentration of dissolved uranium and 234U/238U alpha activity ratio (``A.R.'') were determined in water samples from 23 locations in the Edwards carbonate aquifer of south central Texas by isotope dilution methods and alpha spectrometry. This aquifer consists of two parts, an updip oxidized portion and a downdip reduced portion. At some places the boundary is associated with faulting and at others it is not. The boundary between the two portions of the aquifer can be located by an abrupt change in chemical properties of the water such as a large increase in concentration of Cl-, SO42- and total dissolved solids, the presence of H2S and a decrease in Eh in moving from updip to downdip. Compared with the oxidized samples, the uranium concentration is much lower and the A.R. higher in the reduced samples so that the uranium from each portion falls in a distinct field. The oxidized aquifer samples show very little variation in the measured uranium parameters even though, in some cases, there is evidence that the water has flowed through some tens of kilometers of aquifer. Samples collected near the boundary at those places not associated with faulting yield dissolved uranium values which fall in neither field and which, for the most part, cannot result from mixing of the oxidized and reduced waters. These samples probably result from changes in location of the oxidation-reduction boundary.

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