Size-dependent geochemical characteristics of Asian dust - Sr and Nd isotope compositions as tracers for source identification

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 107-120

  Kanayama, Shinji ^a   Yabuki, Sadayo ^a   Zeng, Fanjiang ^b   Liu, Mingzhe ^b   Shen, Zhibao ^c   Liu, Lichao ^c   Yanagisawa, Fumitaka ^d   Abe, Osamu ^e  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 22244439884     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.83A.107     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Asahara, Y., T. Tanaka, H. Kamioka, A. Nishimura, and T. Yamazaki, 1999: Provenance of the north Pacific sediments and process of source material transport as derived from Rb-Sr isotopic systematics. Chem. Geol., 158, 271-291.
2. Biscaye, P.E., F.E. Grousset, M. Revel, S. Van der Gaast, G. A. Zielinski, A. Vaars, and G. Kukla, 1997: Asian provenance of glacial dust (stage 2) in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 Ice Core, Summit, Greenland. J. Geophys. Res. 102, C12, 26765-26781.
3. Bory, A.J.-M., P.E. Biscaye, A. Svensson, and F.E. Grousset, 2002: Seasonal variability in the origin of recent atmospheric mineral dust at NorthGRIP, Greenland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 196, 123-134.
4. Bory, A.J.-M., P.E. Biscaye, and F.E. Grousset, 2003: Two distinct seasonal Asian source regions for mineral dust deposited in Greenland (NorthGRIP). Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 4, 1167.
5. Chang, Q., 2000: Isotopic and geochemical study on moraines from Kunlun Mts. and Tianshan Mts., NW China. PhD thesis: Grad. Sch. Sci. Tec., Kumamoto Univ., 145 pp.
6. Chang, Q., T. Mishima, S. Yabuki, Y. Takahashi, and H. Shimizu, 2000: Sr and Nd isotope ratios and REE abundances of moraines in the mountain areas surrounding the Taklimakan Desert, NW China. Geochem. J., 34, 407-427.
7. Draxler, R. and G.D. Hess, 1997: Description of HYSPLIT-4 modelling system. Tech. Memo. ERL ARL-224, Natl. Oceanic and Atmos. Admin., Washington, D.C.
8. Goldstein, S.L., R.K. O'Nions, and P.J. Hamilton, 1984: A Sm-Nd isotopic study of atmospheric dusts and particulates from major river systems. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 70, 221-236.
9. Grousset, F.E., P.E. Biscaye, A. Zindler, J. Prospero, and R. Chester, 1988: Neodymium isotopes as tracers in marine sediments and aerosols: North Atlantic. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 87, 367-378.
10. Honda, M., S. Yabuki, and H. Shimizu, 2004: Geochemical and isotopic studies of aeolian sediments in China. Sedimentology, 51, 211-230.
11. Iwasaka, Y., M. Yamato, R. Imasu, and A. Ono, 1988: Transport of Asian dust (KOSA) particles; importance of weak KOSA events on the geochemical cycle of soil particles. Tellus 40B, 494-503.
12. Kanayama, S., S. Yabuki, F. Yanagisawa, and O. Abe, 2002a: Geochemical features and source characterization from Sr isotopes of "Kosa" particles in Red Snow that fell on Yamagata Prefecture, NE Japan in January and March 2001, J. Arid Land Studies, 11, 4, 291-300.
13. Kanayama, S., S. Yabuki, F. Yanagisawa, and R. Motoyama, 2002b: The chemical and strontium isotope composition of atmospheric aerosols over Japan: the contribution of long-range-transported Asian dust (Kosa). Atmos. Environ., 36, 5159-5175.
14. McLennan, 1989: Rare earth elements in sedimentary rocks: Influence of provenance and sedimentary processes. Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 21 (Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare earth elements), ed. B.R. Lipin and G.A. McKay, Washington: Mineral. Soc. Am., 169-200.
15. Liu, C.-Q., A. Masuda, A. Okada, S. Yabuki, and Z.-L. Fan, 1994: Isotope geochemistry of Quaternary deposits from the and lands in northern China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 127, 25-38.
16. Masuda, A., 1975: Abundances of monoisotopic REE, consistent with the Leedey chondrite values. Geochem. J., 9, 183-184.
17. Masuda, A., N. Nakamura, and T. Tanaka, 1973: Fine structures of mutually normalized rare-earth patterns of chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 37, 239-248.
18. Okada, K, H. Naruse, T. Tanaka, O. Nemoto, Y. Iwasaka, P.-M. Wu, A. Ono, R. Duce, M. Uematsu, J. Merrill, and K Arao, 1990: X-ray spectrometry of individual Asian dust-storm particles over the Japanese Islands and the North Pacific Ocean. Atmos. Environ., 24A, 6, 1369-1378.
19. Pye, K, 1987: Aeolian dust and dust deposits. Academic Press, 334pp.
20. Svensson, A., P.E. Biscaye, and F.E. Grousset, 2000: Characterization of late glacial continental dust in the Greenland Ice Core Project ice core. J. Geophys. Res., 105, D4, 4637-4656.
21. Taylor, S.R., and S.M. McLennan, 1995: The geochemical evolution of the continental crust. Rev. Geophys., 33, 241-265.
22. 144Nd ratios among six high purity neodymium oxide reagents. J. Mass. Spectrom. Soc. Japan, 44, 79-83.
23. Tanaka, T., S. Togashi, H. Kamioka, H. Amakawa, H. Kagami, T. Hamamoto, M. Yuhara, Y. Orihashi, S. Yoneda, H. Shimizu, T. Kunimaru, K. Takahashi, T. Yanagi, T. Nakano, H. Fujimaki, R. Shinjo, Y. Asahara, M. Tanimizu, and C. Dragusanu, 2000: JNdi-1: a neodymium isotopic reference in consistency with LaJolla neodymium. Chem. Geol., 168, 279-281.
24. Tegen, I. and I. Fung, 1995: Contribution to the atmospheric mineral aerosol load from land surface modification. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 18707-18726.
25. Tsoar, H. and K. Pye, 1987: Dust transport and the question of desert loess formation. Sedimentology, 34, 139-153.
26. Yabuki, S., A. Okada, A. Ueda, Q. Chang, and Z. Fan, 1998: Sulfur isotope study of salt materials in saline lands and salt deposits around the desert areas in Xinjiang, China: Implications to the study of the source of the aeolian dust of Inland Asia. J. Arid Land Studies, 7, 127-138.
27. 86Sr ratios of calcites in Chinese loess: a proxy for chemical weathering associated with the East Asian summer monsoon. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 157, 151-159.
28. Yang, J., J. Chen, X. Tao, C. Li, J. Ji, and Y. Chen, 2001: Sr isotope ratios of acid-leached loess residues from Luochuan, China: A tracer of continental weathering intensity over the past 2.5 Ma. Geochem. J., 35, 403-412.
29. Yokoo, Y., T. Nakano, M. Nishikawa, and H. Quan, 2004: Mineralogical variation of Sr-Nd isotopic and elemental compositions in loess and desert sand from the central Loess Plateau in China as a provenance tracer of wet and dry deposition in the northwestern Pacific. Chem. Geol., 204, 45-62.
30. Zhang, X.Y., R. Arimoto, G.H. Zhu, T. Chen, and G.Y. Zhang, 1998: Concentration, size-distribution and deposition of mineral aerosols over Chinese desert regions. Tellus, Ser. B 50, 317-330.