Element composition of dust from a shallow Dunde ice core, Northern China

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 186-192

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Gao, Shaopeng ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Tian, Lide ^a   Xia, Dunsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Dunde ice core; element composition; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DESERT; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 67349118401     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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