Climatic and tectonic controls on weathering in south China and Indochina Peninsula: Clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the Pearl, Red, and Mekong drainage basins

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Zhifei ^a   Colin, Christophe ^b   Huang, Wei ^a   Phon Le, Khanh ^c   Tong, Shengqi ^a   Chen, Zhong ^d   Trentesaux, Alain ^e  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c HANOI UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Clay minerals; Major elements; Mekong River; Pearl River; Red River

Indexed keywords

EID: 35048854737     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001490     Document Type: Article

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