Major ion chemistry and dissolved inorganic carbon cycling in a human-disturbed mountainous river (the Luodingjiang River) of the Zhujiang (Pearl River), China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2796-2807

  Zhang, Shurong ^a   Lu, X X ^a   Sun, Huiguo ^b   Han, Jingtai ^b   Higgitt, David Laurence ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dissolved inorganic carbon; Human impacts; Major ions; Stable carbon isotope; Water chemistry; Zhujiang (Pearl River)

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; HUMAN IMPACTS; MAJOR IONS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; ZHUJIANG (PEARL RIVER);

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLUTION; DROUGHT; GEMS; GRANITE; IONS; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVER CONTROL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBONATE ROCK; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; GRANITE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; SANDSTONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; RAIN; RIVERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 61449187287     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.036     Document Type: Article

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