Improved provenance tracing of Asian dust sources using rare earth elements and selected trace elements for palaeomonsoon studies on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6374-6399

  Ferrat, Marion ^a   Weiss, Dominik J ^a,b   Strekopytov, Stanislav ^b   Dong, Shuofei ^a   Chen, Hongyun ^c   Najorka, Jens ^b   Sun, Youbin ^c   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Tada, Ryuji ^d   Sinha, Rajiv ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DEPOSITION; DESERT; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; MONSOON; PARTICLE SIZE; POINT SOURCE; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80053172831     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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