Geochemical balance of lateritization processes and climatic signatures in weathering profiles overlain by ferricretes in Central Africa

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 23-24, 1999, Pages 3939-3957

  Beauvais, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FERRICRETE; GEOCHEMISTRY; LATERITIZATION; WEATHERING;

(CENTRAL); AFRICA;

EID: 0033506832     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00173-8     Document Type: Article

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