X-ray fluorescence core scanning records of chemical weathering and monsoon evolution over the past 5 Myr in the southern South China Sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tian, Jun ^a   Xie, Xin ^a   Ma, Wentao ^a   Jin, Haiyan ^a   Wang, Pinxian ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CORE ANALYSIS; ECCENTRICITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MONSOON; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PLIOCENE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 80054745740     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002045     Document Type: Article

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