Climatic and geological factors contributing to the natural water chemistry in an arid environment from watersheds in northern Xinjiang, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 153-154, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-114

  Zhu, Bingqi ^a   Yu, Jingjie ^a   Qin, Xiaoguang ^b   Rioual, Patrick ^b   Xiong, Heigang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic influence; Arid environment; Atmospheric input; Climatic effect; Inorganic water chemistry; Rock weathering

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CARBONATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; DISSOLUTION; IONIC COMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINWATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED;

EID: 84862798601     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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