Show RADIUM IN HOT SPRINGS I il t exports In the tho employ or of the survey sune have hava tested the anti and formation or of the f park puk and have dis the they contain radium This fl a new flOW or of investigation antI the waters or of other hot springs w rv be o analyzed There Thole are ot near Ogden whIch might rr r to t have hae radioactivity r i I report of the or ii the Yellowstone waters says sas that the lie disc vo of radium and Its elements clemonts with their property properly of continuously emanating hout a new flOW factor has entered into luto the speculations of scientists regard iii hl the causes of local ous ut heat in the earths crust Thermal and geysers are aro undergoing a alic lic In order to determine hethel their waters contain geater quantities of radium than ordinary aters from underground sources United States geological liun ils hs just as bulletin 95 a under the title Ol 01 the Wa iNa ers of Yellowstone National Parl by Herman Richard 13 Moore giving the reo re 5 lt of recent tests The Tho experiments cre conducted chiefly irom froni the lits point of view and In tills this bulletin the tue that follows the tho tables u quantitative results Is limited to Minting out the more important chur and relations of the data m u comparing them with hula duta of I In other regions of h by activity The authors have indicated a Possible application or of senie of the results to a geologic ques que ago age of sonic some of the but ut no s systematic attempt has hns been made Jo o relate the tho facts of I H to the or of he re region ion or to the geology or of the Typical cynical spring water rater from all the thep p 1 of thermal activity cre tested an and wherever gases were e a also were tested for their radioactive v Many solids also of spring water sater residue and rock sam pits were examined quantitatively for iOl tile radIum content The Tue tons were all made h ly the tho electrical method the apparatus and procedure tc which are aro briefly described The results show that the rock In the par park contains radium n nd In some localities thorium In suf suC sufficient quantities to male make the waters ana gases radioactive No Nott tt were made macIe to determine tho thoI I I of helium which is a of oC the gas escaping Irom several rA ot the more active European spring I |