Measuring and adjusting the weathering and hydraulic sorting effects for rigorous provenance analysis of sedimentary rocks: A case study from the Jurassic Ashikita Group, south-west Japan

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1687-1701

  Ohta, Tohru ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ashikita Group; Geochemistry; Hydraulic sorting; Kurosegawa Belt; Provenance; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FELSIC ROCK; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; JURASSIC; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SOURCE ROCK; TREND ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 56349087508     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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