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Zoned Apatite crystals with intrinsic radioactivity are widespread in the S-type basement granite around Govardhanagiri-Chinnakolumulapalli-L.Banda areas of Kurnool District, A.P. The granite is overlain by Gulcheru quartzite and in turn by Vempalle dolostone of Papaghni Group belonging to the Cuddapah Supergroup. The area (4 km x 6 km) is characterized by conjugate fracture system comprising ENE-WSW and WNW-ESE of varying extents, of which, ENE-WSW is sympathetic to the major deep seated Gani Kalva fault. The apatite crystals are frequently zoned and vary in size from few microns to 1000 microns, occur mostly as veins or associated with pulverized matrix of granite cataclasite. Veins (upto 2 cm. thick) generally follow the major fracture-trend (ENE-WSW) in the area. The apatites are also found intimately associated with fluorite, tourmaline and sulphides, which suggest their derivation from pneumatolytic fluids. The intrinsic accessory uranium as scarce grains of uraninite and other labile phases of granite were remobilized consequent upon the deformation and locked up as ferroan-oxy/hydroxyl inclusions in slowly growing apatite crystals under very low temperature conditions.
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Sarvanan, R., Srivastava, S.K., Sunil Kumar, T.S. et al. Radioelement-bearing secondary zoned apatite around Govardhanagiri-Chinnakolumulapalli-L. Banda areas of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. J Geol Soc India 83, 142–146 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-014-0025-2
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