Geochemical variations in aeolian mineral particles from the Sahara-Sahel Dust Corridor

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-270

  Moreno, Teresa ^a   Querol, Xavier ^a   Castillo, Sonia ^a   Alastuey, Andrés ^a   Cuevas, Emilio ^b   Herrmann, Ludger ^c   Mounkaila, Mohammed ^c   Elvira, Josep ^a   Gibbons, Wes ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b INM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d AP 23075   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dust and soil geochemistry; Mineral aerosols; Sahara Sahel Dust

Indexed keywords

DUST AND SOIL GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS; MINERAL AEROSOLS; SAHARA-SAHEL DUST;

CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; DUST; OCEANOGRAPHY; POSITIVE IONS; SALTS; WIND EFFECTS;

AEROSOLS;

CARBONIC ACID; MINERAL; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM; SILICATE; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

AEROSOLS; CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; DUST; OCEANOGRAPHY; POSITIVE IONS; SALTS; WIND EFFECTS;

AEROSOL; CATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MINERAL; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WEATHERING;

AEROSOL; ALGERIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; MINERALOGY;

AEROSOLS; AFRICA, NORTHERN; AIR POLLUTANTS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINERALS; PHOSPHATES; WIND;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; MAURITANIA; NIGER [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA; NORTH AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WESTERN SAHARA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33746796716     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.02.052     Document Type: Article

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