The Fe/Na ratio, a framework for modelling trace element distributions in Jamaican soils

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-157

  Garrett, Robert G ^a   Lalor, Gerald C ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Caribbean; Geochemistry; Iron; Jamaica; Sodium; Soils; Terra rossa; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MINERALS; SILICA; SODIUM; SOILS; URANIUM; VOLCANOES;

CARIBBEAN; JAMAICA; QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORKS; SOIL FORMING PROCESS; TERRA ROSSA; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 18444367673     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-057     Document Type: Article

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