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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>D.F. Reid</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>T. F. Kraemer</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1984</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;div id="preview-section-abstract"&gt;&lt;div id="abstracts" class="Abstracts u-font-serif text-s"&gt;&lt;div id="aep-abstract-id4" class="abstract author"&gt;&lt;div id="aep-abstract-sec-id5"&gt;&lt;p id="simple-para.0010"&gt;Radium has been measured in deep saline formation waters produced from a variety of U.S. Gulf Coast subsurface environments, including oil reservoirs, gas reservoirs and water-producing geopressured aquifers. A strong positive correlation has been found between formation-water salinity and Ra activity, resulting from the interaction of formation water with aquifer matrix. Ra isotopes enter the fluid phase after being produced by the decay of parent elements U and Th, which are located at sites on and within the solid matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="simple-para.0015"&gt;Processes that are belived to be primarily responsible for transferring Ra from matrix to formation water are chemical leaching and alpha-particle recoil. Factors controlling the observed salinity—Ra relationship may be one or a combination of the following factors: (a) ion exchange; (b) increased solubility of matrix silica surrounding Ra atoms, coupled with a salinity-controlled rate of reequilibration of silica between solution and quartz grains; and (c) the equilibration of Ra in solution with detrial barite within the aquifer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="simple-para.0020"&gt;No difference was found in the brine-Ra relation in water produced from oil or gas wells and water produced from wells penetrating only water-bearing aquifers, although the relation was more highly correlated for water-bearing aquifers than hydrocarbon-containing reservoirs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="preview-section-introduction"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="preview-section-snippets"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="preview-section-references"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p id="simple-para.0015"&gt;Processes that are belived to be primarily responsible for transferring Ra from matrix to formation water are chemical leaching and alpha-particle recoil. Factors controlling the observed salinity—Ra relationship may be one or a combination of the following factors: (a) ion exchange; (b) increased solubility of matrix silica surrounding Ra atoms, coupled with a salinity-controlled rate of reequilibration of silica between solution and quartz grains; and (c) the equilibration of Ra in solution with detrial barite within the aquifer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="simple-para.0020"&gt;No difference was found in the brine-Ra relation in water produced from oil or gas wells and water produced from wells penetrating only water-bearing aquifers, although the relation was more highly correlated for water-bearing aquifers than hydrocarbon-containing reservoirs.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/0009-2541(84)90186-4</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>The occurrence and behavior of radium in saline formation water of the U.S. Gulf Coast region</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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