Heavy dust fall in Beijing, on April 16-17, 2006: Geochemical properties and indications of the dust provenance

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-236

  Feng, Jin Liang ^a   Zhu, Li Ping ^a   Ju, Jian Ting ^a   Zhou, Li Ping ^b   Zhen, Xiao Lin ^a   Zhang, Wen ^c   Gao, Shao Peng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dust fall; Dust provenance; Geochemical properties; Loess; Oxygen isotope composition; Quartz

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARTICLE SIZE; QUARTZ; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SAMPLING; TRACE ELEMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 55349118868     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.42.221     Document Type: Article

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