An end-member algorithm for deciphering modern detrital processes from lake sediments of Lake Donggi Cona, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 243-244, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-180

  Dietze, Elisabeth ^a   Hartmann, Kai ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^b   IJmker, Janneke ^c   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^c   Opitz, Stephan ^b   Stauch, Georg ^c   Wünnemann, Bernd ^a,d   Borchers, Andreas ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

End member modelling; Grain size distribution; Modern lake sediments; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESS; CLASSICAL METHODS; DATA SETS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EIGEN SPACE ANALYSIS; END-MEMBER MODELLING; ENDMEMBERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FINE SAND; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MIXING PROCESS; MODERN LAKE SEDIMENTS; MULTI-MODAL; OPTIMAL MODEL; QINGHAI PROVINCE; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SPATIAL ATTRIBUTE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOTAL VARIANCE; UNMIXING; WATER DEPTH;

ALGORITHMS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LAKES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RANDOM ERRORS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; DONGGI CONA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84855679365     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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