Compositions of heavy minerals in Northeastern China sandlands and provenance analysis

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1715-1723

  Xie, Jing ^a,b   Ding, ZhongLi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Garnet; Heavy minerals; Northeastern China; Provenance; Tourmaline

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; ILMENITE; MAGNETITE;

AMPHIBOLE; EPIDOTE; HEAVY MINERALS; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; TOURMALINE;

GARNETS;

AMPHIBOLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GARNET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAGNETITE; PROVENANCE; TOURMALINE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HULUN BUIR DESERT; NEI MONGGOL; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 35048812451     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0110-0     Document Type: Article

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