Chemical weathering intensity of the Late Cenozoic "red clay" deposits in the Carpathian Basin

Geochemistry International

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1056-1063

  Kovács, Jones ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FORMATION MECHANISM; WEATHERING RATE;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 35748982431     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0016702907100096     Document Type: Article

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