[net.religion] Mystery of the Radiohalos

eugenez@tekmdp.UUCP (Eugene Zinter) (08/30/83)

	Curiously enough, the above subject was the title
of a  discussion in the September 1977 issue of "Creation 
Research  Society Quarterly" (Volume  14, pages 103-107).

	Apparently  the  article  also  appeared  in  the 
10 FEB 1977 issue of  "Research  Communcications  Network
Newsletter" (No. 2).

	The article is  quite interesting.  It  should be
noted that  Robert V. Gentry  examined more than  100,000
radioholos  and is  supposed to be  the  world's  leading
authority on the subject.

	A list of  references  appears at the  end of the
article and I thought  those who would like to learn more
about the radiohalo phenomenon would be interested:

	
Gentry, Robert V. 1973.  Radiocactive halos, Annual Review
of Nuclear Science 23(554):347-362.

Struve, Otto 1959.  Finding the age of the Earth, Sky and
Telescope 18(8):433-435.

Gentry, Robert V. 1968.  Fossil alpha-recoil analysis of
certain variant radioactive halos, Science 160(3833):1228-1230.

Gentry, Robert V. 1974.  Radiohalos in a radiochronological
and cosmological perspective, Science 184(4132):62-66.

Fremlin, J. H., and R. V. Gentry 1975.  Spectacle halos.
(Discussion)  Nature 258(5532):269-270.

Gentry, Robert V., L. D. Hullett, S. S. Cristy, J. F. McLaughlin,
J. A. McHugh, and Michael Bayard 1974.  Spectacle arrays of 

210
   Po halo radiocentres in biotite, a nuclear geophysical
enigma, Nature 252(5483):564-566.

Moazed, Cyrus, Richard M. Spector, and Richard F. Ward 1973.
Polonium radiohalos:  an alternate interpretation,
Science 180(4092):1272-1274.

Gentry, Robert V., Warner H. Christie, David H. Smith,
S. A. Reynolds, Raymond Walker, S. S. Cristy, and P. A. Gentry
1976.  Radiohalos in coalified wood: new evidence relating to
the time of uranium introduction and coalificaton,
Science 194(4262):315-318.


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