Tracing Nile sediment sources by Sr and Nd isotope signatures (Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan)

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3627-3644

  Padoan, Marta ^a   Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Harlavan, Yehudit ^b   Villa, Igor Maria ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CATCHMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GNEISS; GRAIN SIZE; MINERALOGY; MUD; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PROVENANCE; SAND; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

BLUE NILE [SUDAN]; CONGO CRATON; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; LAKE NASSER; NILE [UGANDA]; SUDAN; TEKEZE RIVER; UGANDA;

EID: 79955978245     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.042     Document Type: Article

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