Late quaternary weathering and erosion of the eastern Tibetan Plateau and the Mekong Basin and the East Asian monsoon evolution recorded by sediments from the South China Sea

Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-38

  Liu, Zhi Fei ^a   Colin, Christophe ^b   Trentesaux, Alain ^c   Blamart, Dominique ^d   Bassinot, Franck ^d   Siani, Giuseppe ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; East Asian monsoon; Grain size; Late Quaternary; Mekong River; South China Sea; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EROSION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; WEATHERING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 17744389585     PISSN: 10072802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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