Rare earth elements as provenance indicators in North Australian estuarine and coastal marine sediments

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-409

  Munksgaard, Niels Crosley ^a   Lim, Kezia ^a   Parry, David Livingstone ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clays; Digests; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometery; Instrumental neutron activation analysis; Provenance; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

(NORTH); AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0041707938     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00368-2     Document Type: Article

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