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Surface radioactive anomalies at Srisailam sub basin, Cuddapah basin, India

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Surface radioactive survey has been carried with portable gamma ray spectrometer (PGRS) about the 45 km2 around the Srisailam sub basin, the surface radioactive anomalies were found at Chennakesavula gutta in the Srisailam sub basin of Cuddapah basin in the age of meso-neo proterozoic, India. The integrated geochemical and radiometric surveys were conducted as part of research work in the Srisailam basin, it has resulted the locating of surface radioactive anomalies near the Chennakesavula gutta. Secondary uranium minerals are observed along with the fracture planes in the Archean basement granite in the proximity of unconformity contact of Srisailam quartzite. The granite underlies the Srisailam formation and forms the source for possible unconformity related uranium mineralisation in the Srisailam sub-basin evidence by the significant radioactive anomalies. The radioactivity recorded by PGRS reflected uraniferous nature of the radioactivity (Average total counts = 195 ppm; U = 202 ppm; Th = 22 ppm; %K = 4.1, n = 15).

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The author thank to the Supervisor as well as to the Director, Atomic Mineral Directorate for Exploration & Research, Hyderabad. Thank to BRNS projects coordinator for given opportunity to utilize the data for Ph.D., and cooperated for publishing of the article.

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    Vishnu Bhoopathi, R. S. N. Sastry & B. Srinivas

  2. Atomic Mineral Directorate for Exploration and Research, Begumpet, Hyderabad, India

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Bhoopathi, V., Niranjan Kumar, S., Sastry, R.S.N. et al. Surface radioactive anomalies at Srisailam sub basin, Cuddapah basin, India. Chin. J. Geochem. 34, 265–271 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11631-015-0046-6

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