The rare earth element compositions of sediments from the loess tableland in the Liyang Plain, southern China: Implications for provenance and weathering intensity

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1609-1617

  Mao, Longjiang ^a   Mo, Duowen ^b   Li, Minglin ^b   Zhou, Kunshu ^c   Yang, Jinghong ^d   Guo, Weimin ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relies and Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Provenance; Rare earth element; The Liyang Plain; Weathering intensity

Indexed keywords

BROWN SOIL; CRITICAL REGION; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; DONGTING LAKE AREA; DUST STORM; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; LOESS PLATEAU; PROVENANCE; RED SOILS; REE CONTENT; SOUTHERN CHINA; THE LIYANG PLAIN; YANGTZE RIVER;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DUST; EUROPIUM; LAKES; RARE EARTHS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; STORMS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CIVILIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL TYPE; WEATHERING;

CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN; JIANGSU; LIYANG;

EID: 79953162884     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0644-x     Document Type: Article

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