Characterization of uranium redox state in organic-rich Eocene sediments

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This work was funded through a grant to JWM from the CSIRO Organic Geochemistry of Mineral Systems (OGMS) Research Cluster. Parts of this research were undertaken on the XAS and XFM beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, part of ANSTO. We would like to thank: Xavier Moreau (Vimy Resources) for MR samples; Dr Alan Grieg, Graham Hutchinson and Dr Hong Vu for laboratory assistance; Prof. Lorenz Schwark (University of Kiel) for TOC, N and S data analysis; Dr Martin De Jonge and Dr Daryl Howard for beamline assistance at AS XFM, Museum Victoria for comparative minerals, and Steven Henderson for his editorial contributions. SC would like to thank the Australian Synchrotron (AS) for beamtime and the AS and Monash University for support in preparation of this manuscript through a joint post-doctoral fellowship.