Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 173-189

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Andò, Sergio ^a   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^a   Lustrino, Michele ^b   Boni, Maria ^c   Vermeesch, Pieter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeolian sorting; Grain roundness; Mechanical abrasion; Provenance analysis; Pyroxene chemistry; U Pb zircon ages

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GARNET; LONGSHORE CURRENT; PETROLOGY; PROVENANCE; PYROXENE; QUARTZ; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

LESOTHO; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; ORANGE DELTA; ORANGE RIVER;

EID: 84860875429     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.02.008     Document Type: Review

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