Spatial and temporal patterns of grain size and chemical weathering of the Chinese Red Clay Formation and implications for East Asian monsoon evolution

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3990-4004

  Han, Jingtai ^a   Chen, Hehai ^a   Fyfe, William S ^b   Guo, Zhengfu ^a   Wang, Daojing ^a   Liu, T S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE; LEACHING; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547467915     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.05.027     Document Type: Article

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