Turbulent mixing in the Amazon River: The isotopic memory of confluences

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 37-43

  Bouchez, Julien ^a   Lajeunesse, Eric ^a   Gaillardet, Jérôme ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^b   Dutra Maia, Poliana ^c   Maurice, Laurence ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon River; confluence; dissolved species; heterogeneities; Sr isotopes; turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RIVER; BED MORPHOLOGY; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONCENTRATION DATA; HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LARGE RIVERS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LATERAL MIXING; RIVER WATER; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE SECTION; TURBULENT DISPERSION; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DISPERSIONS; DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN VACANCIES; SODIUM; STRONTIUM;

RIVERS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONFLUENCE; DISCHARGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RIVER WATER; STRONTIUM; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

AMAZON RIVER; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOLIMOES BASIN;

EID: 74149094139     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.054     Document Type: Article

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