Sources and flux of trace elements in river water collected from the Lake Qinghai catchment, NE Tibetan Plateau

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1536-1546

  Jin, Zhangdong ^a,b   You, Chen Feng ^c   Yu, Tsai Luen ^c   Wang, Bo Shian ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONTROLLING PROCESS; DERIVED MATERIALS; DISCHARGE PULSE; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; DRINKING WATER; EOLIAN DUST; HIGH FLUX; HIGH PRECISION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MONSOON CONDITIONS; POST-MONSOON; RIVER WATER; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; ROCK WEATHERING; SEASONAL PATTERNS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME AND SPACE; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; WATER SAMPLES; WEATHERING PROCESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BARIUM; CATCHMENTS; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DISSOLUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LAKES; LEAD; MOLYBDENUM; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; RUBIDIUM; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; WEATHERING; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHROMIUM; DISCHARGE; DRINKING WATER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MONSOON; PLATEAU; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZINC;

BUHA RIVER; CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE;

EID: 77957021510     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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