Variations in 87Sr/86Sr ratios of calcites in Chinese loess: A proxy for chemical weathering associated with the East Asian summer monsoon

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 151-159

  Yang, Jiedong ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   An, Zhisheng ^b   Shields, Graham ^c   Tao, Xiancong ^a   Zhu, Hongbin ^a   Ji, Junfeng ^a   Chen, Yang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; East Asian monsoon; Loess and paleosols; Soil carbonates; Sr isotope

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; WEATHERING;

CHINA;

EID: 0034653575     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00159-5     Document Type: Article

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