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High heat producing radioactive granites of malani igneous suite at northeast of Jodhpur, northwestern India

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The Malani igneous suite, a terrain showing crustal formation as late as in Neoproterozoic, shows some pink and grey granites in the northeast of the desert city of Jodhpur, in northwestern, India. The average heat generation value of 15.925 HGU for these granites that is much higher than the average known value (3.8 HGU) for the continental crust has been reported here. The concentration of uranium determined is four times higher than the average continental crust. Thorium is still higher than U and K. The radioelement concentration (Ur) varies from 15.58 to 73.48 in the granites with an average of 45.671, clearly indicates a ‘hot crust’. Hence it is favourable for the formation of mineralization of HFS elements like, Nb, Ce, REE and U and Th, which need to be explored in the terrain as an economic deposit.

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Shrivastava, K.L., Ram, D. & Gaur, V. High heat producing radioactive granites of malani igneous suite at northeast of Jodhpur, northwestern India. J Geol Soc India 89, 291–294 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0601-3

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