Nature, genesis and provenance of silt pellets on the ice surface of Glacier No. 1, upper Urumqi River, Tian Shan, Northwestern China

Quaternary International

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 107-115

  Li, Dewen ^a,b   Ma, Baoqi ^a   Jiang, Fengqing ^c   Wang, Pengling ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DUST; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PETROGENESIS; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILT;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN; URUMQI GLACIER NO.1; URUMQI RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 78651282501     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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