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Uraniferous bitumens from Permian rocks at Vrchlabi, Czechoslavakia, contain abundant inclusions of uraninite and also inclusions of gersdorffite. The uraninite consistently contains radiogenic lead which does not appear to have been mobilized and redistributed. Chemical age dating of large uraninite crystals yields Jurassic ages which are interpreted to represent the date of hydrocarbon migration into the rocks.
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Parnell, J. (1993). Chemical Age Dating of Hydrocarbon Migration Using Uraniferous Bitumens, Czech-Polish Border Region. In: Parnell, J., Kucha, H., Landais, P. (eds) Bitumens in Ore Deposits. Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85806-2_28
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