Magnetic properties as tracers for source-to-sink dispersal of sediments: A case study in the Taiwan Strait

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 141-152

  Horng, Chorng Shern ^a   Huh, Chih An ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Magnetic properties; Magnetite; Pyrrhotite; Sediments; Source to sink systems; Taiwan Strait

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION RATES; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; INDIAN OCEAN; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MARGINAL SEAS; METAMORPHIC TERRAINS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; MIXING MODELS; NORTHERN TAIWAN; PYRRHOTITE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SOURCE TO SINKS; SOURCE-TO-SINK SYSTEMS; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TAIWAN STRAIT; TAIWAN STRAITS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; IRON ORES; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; MAGNETITE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETITE; MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE; PYRRHOTITE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 79961126106     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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