Yangtse River sediments and erosion rates from source to sink traced with cosmogenic 10Be: Sediments from major rivers

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-94

  Chappell, John ^a   Zheng, Hongbo ^b   Fifield, Keith ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beryllium 10; Erosion; Sediments; Source to sink; Yangtse River

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEAVY METAL; HOLOCENE; MIXING; MIXING RATIO; SAND; SOURCE ROCK; TRIBUTARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; YANGTZE DELTA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 33749509376     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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