The influence of dry lakebeds, degraded sandy grasslands and abandoned farmland in the arid inlands of northern China on the grain size distribution of East Asian aeolian dust

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1767-1775

  Yang, Li Rong ^a   Yue, Le Ping ^b   Li, Zhi Pei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dry lakebeds; East Asia; Grain size distribution; Northern China; Sand dust storm

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTS;

DEGRADED SANDY GRASSLANDS; LAKEBEDS; MOBILE DUNES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ARID REGIONS;

ABANDONED LAND; ARID ENVIRONMENT; DUST STORM; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; GRASSLAND;

ALXA PLATEAU; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; JUNGGAR BASIN; MANAS LAKE; MINQIN BASIN; NEI MONGGOL; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 38749094874     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0782-y     Document Type: Article

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