Petrography and chemistry of the bed sediments of the Red River in China and Vietnam: Provenance and chemical weathering

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 194, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 155-168

  Borges, Joniell ^a   Huh, Youngsook ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemical index of alteration; Climate; Da; GIS; Lo; Tibet

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GIS; INORGANIC CARBON; LITHOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDE; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRIBUTARY;

ASIA; BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; INDUS RIVER; RED BASIN [ASIA]; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846183588     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.029     Document Type: Article

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