Late Quaternary clay minerals off Middle Vietnam in the western South China Sea: Implications for source analysis and East Asian monsoon evolution

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1674-1684

  Liu, ZhiFei ^a   Zhao, YuLong ^a   Li, JianRu ^a   Colin, Christophe ^b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; East Asian monsoon; Late Quaternary; Middle Vietnam; Provenance; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; STRATIGRAPHY; WIND;

LATE QUATERNARY CLAY MINERALS; MONSOON EVOLUTION; WINTER MONSOON WINDS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CHLORITE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE SHEET; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; MINERAL RESOURCE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUMMER; WIND;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MEKONG RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RED RIVER [UNITED STATES]; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

DIPLEX;

EID: 35048818910     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0115-8     Document Type: Article

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