Strontium and neodymium isotopic signatures indicate the provenance and depositional process of loams intercalated in coastal dune sand, western Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Saitoh, Yu ^a   Tamura, Toru ^b   Kodama, Yoshinori ^c   Nakano, Takanori ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal dune; Eolian dust; Loess; MIS 3; Strontium and neodymium isotopes

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DUST; BULK SAMPLES; COASTAL DUNE; COASTAL DUNE SAND; DESERT SAND; DUNE SANDS; EOLIAN DUST; GOBI DESERT; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC VALUES; JAPAN SEA; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOESS; MIS 3; TAKLAMAKAN; UNDERLYING LAYERS; WESTERN JAPAN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; NEODYMIUM; SAND; SILICATES; SILT; STRONTIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DUST;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DUNE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LOAM; LOESS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

AIRA;

EID: 79952630992     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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