Mineralogical and chemical variability of fluvial sediments 2. Suspended-load silt (Ganga-Brahmaputra, Bangladesh)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 107-120

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Andó, Sergio ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^b   Censi, Paolo ^c   Vignola, Pietro ^d   Galy, Valier ^b   Lupker, Maarten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Raman spectroscopy; REE geochemistry; Settling equivalence; Silt mineralogy; Suspension sorting; Weathering indices

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC MODIFICATION; BANGLADESH; BRAHMAPUTRA; CHEMICAL CHANGE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL VARIABILITY; COMPOSITIONAL VARIABILITY; DENSE FRACTION; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; EROSION PATTERNS; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL TRANSPORT; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL GRINDING; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYHYDROXIDES; PROVENANCE STUDIES; RAMAN ANALYSIS; REE GEOCHEMISTRY; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SETTLING EQUIVALENCE; SETTLING VELOCITY; SIZE CLASS; SORTING MODEL; SPHERICAL GRAINS; SUSPENDED LOADS; SUSPENSION SORTING; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; TERNARY MIXTURES; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER DEPTH; WATER SURFACE; WEATHERING INDICES; WEATHERING PROCESS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEAVY WATER; MINERALOGY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RATING; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILT; SORTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MINERALS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIFFUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MINERALOGY; PROVENANCE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; GANGES RIVER;

EID: 78751569711     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.043     Document Type: Article

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