Quaternary Stratigraphy and Trace-Element Indices of the Yangtze Delta, Eastern China, with Special Reference to Marine Transgressions

Quaternary Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-191

  Chen, Zhongyuan ^a   Chen, Zhenglou ^a   Zhang, Weigou ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL FACIES; LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSGRESSIONS;

CHINA, JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHANG JIANG DELTA; CHINA, JIANGSU PROVINCE, YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 0030926835     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1996.1878     Document Type: Article

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