The use of quartz grain microtextures in the study of the origin of sand terrains in Western Australia

Catena

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-17

  Newsome, David ^a   Ladd, Philip ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Quartz sand; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032970923     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(98)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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