Provenance of aeolian sediment in the Taklamakan Desert of western China, inferred from REE and major-elemental data

Quaternary International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-85

  Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Zhu, Bingqi ^a   White, Paul D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 36549074541     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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