Grain size control of river suspended sediment geochemistry: Clues from Amazon River depth profiles

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bouchez, Julien ^a   Gaillardet, Jéǒrme ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^b   Maurice, Laurence ^c   Dutra Maia, Poliana ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon River; depth profiles; grain size; hydrodynamic sorting; suspended sediments

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BARIUM; CESIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; QUARTZ; RIVER CONTROL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATES; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

AL/SI RATIO; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; CHANNEL DEPTH; CHANNEL SURFACE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; DEPTH PROFILE; DILUTION EFFECT; FAN-SHAPED PATTERN; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE CONTROL; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY MINERALS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LARGE RIVERS; RESIDUAL SOLIDS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER DEPTH;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SORTING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WEATHERING;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 79953245347     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003380     Document Type: Article

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