Rare earth elements in the Amazon basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1379-1392

  Gerard, M ^a   Seyler, P ^b   Benedetti, M F ^d   Alves, V P ^c   Boaventura, G R ^c   Sondag, F ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon River; Colloidal fraction; Dissolved materials; Geochemistry; Rear earth elements; Rio Negro; Rio Solim es; Suspended load

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COLLOIDS; PH EFFECTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

PARTICULATE FRACTIONS;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFLUENCE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MIXING; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RIVER WATER;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038582773     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1290     Document Type: Article

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