Identifying provenance of South Caspian coastal sediments using mineral distribution pattern

Quaternary International

Volumn 261, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-137

  Lahijani, Hamid ^a   Tavakoli, Vahid ^a,b  

^a Iranian National Institute for Oceanography   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBONATE; CENOZOIC; COASTAL SEDIMENT; GARNET; GRAIN SIZE; ILMENITE; MAGNETITE; MINERALOGY; ORTHOCLASE; PROVENANCE; PYROXENE; QUATERNARY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; ZIRCON;

CASPIAN SEA;

EID: 84860521292     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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