Geochemistry of the upper Han River basin, China. 3: Anthropogenic inputs and chemical weathering to the dissolved load

Chemical Geology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 89-95

  Li, Siyue ^a   Xu, Zhifang ^b   Wang, Hao ^c   Wang, Jianhua ^c   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; CO2 consumption; Upper Han River; Water geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLVED LOAD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; HAN BASIN;

EID: 67349159436     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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