Characterization of individual fly ash particles in surface snow at Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Eastern Tianshan

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 3464-3473

  Zhang, Xue Lei ^a   Wu, Guang Jian ^a   Yao, Tan Dong ^a   Zhang, Cheng Long ^a   Yue, Ya Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

chemical classification; fly ash particles; individual particle characterization; SEM EDX; Urumqi Glacier No.1

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355146934     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4684-8     Document Type: Article

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