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Specific Features of the 226Ra, 238U, and 232Th Distribution in the Surface Layer of Marine Sediments under the Conditions of Active Biosedimentation in the Arctic Front Zone

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The distribution of natural radionuclides and organic matter in bottom sediments of the active biosedimentation zone on the section drawn through the arctic front of the North Atlantic was studied. The ratios of the amounts of 226Ra, 238U, and 232Th, both deposited in the surface layer of bottom sediments from seawater and supplied with the terrigenic material, were estimated. Direct deposition of radium from water to marine sediments correlates with the organic matter content. The concentration of radium that is not in equilibrium with uranium varies in the range 95–99% of the total content and increases with an increase in the content of chloroform-soluble bitominoid (CB) (R = 0.95). The deposition of nonequilibrium 238U from water to bottom deposits is also significant and ranges from 42 to 69% of the total 238U content. The concentration ratio of nonequilibrium uranium and nonequilibrium radium in the sediments decreases with increasing depth and increases with an increase in the CB content of the deposit. Positive correlation is observed between the content of thorium and total uranium (R = 0.93) and of its nonequilibrium and terrigenic fractions (R = 0.93 and 0.94, respectively).

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The authors are grateful to Acad. A.P. Lisitsyn for the general guidance and to participants of the expedition for the assistance in sampling.

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The study was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 14-50-00095). The data were processed in part within the framework of the government assignment, theme no. 0149-2019-0007.

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    M. M. Domanov, A. K. Abrosimov & E. A. Novichkova

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Radiokhimiya, 2019, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 446–449.

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Domanov, M.M., Abrosimov, A.K. & Novichkova, E.A. Specific Features of the 226Ra, 238U, and 232Th Distribution in the Surface Layer of Marine Sediments under the Conditions of Active Biosedimentation in the Arctic Front Zone. Radiochemistry 61, 632–636 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362219050187

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