Compositional trends in aeolian dust along a transect across the southwestern United States

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Goldstein, Harland L ^a   Reynolds, Richard L ^a   Reheis, Marith C ^a   Yount, James C ^a   Neff, Jason C ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

COLORADO PLATEAU; MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50849120429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000751     Document Type: Article

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