Seasonal contributions of catchment weathering and eolian dust to river water chemistry, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Chemical and Sr isotopic constraints

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jin, Zhangdong ^a,b   You, Chen Feng ^c   Yu, Jimin ^d   Wu, Lingling ^e   Zhang, Fei ^a   Liu, Hou Chun ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CATCHMENT; GROUNDWATER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MONSOON; RAINFALL; RIVER WATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

BUHA RIVER; CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80155130056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002002     Document Type: Article

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