Geochemistry of eolian dust and its elemental contribution to Lake Qinghai sediment

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1546-1555

  Wan, Dejun ^a,b   Jin, Zhangdong ^a   Wang, Yinxi ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DUSTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DUST DEPOSITION; DUST FLUX; DUST SAMPLES; EOLIAN DUST; LAKE QINGHAI; LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; MOBILE ELEMENTS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

COPPER; LAKES; LEAD; MANGANESE; RUBIDIUM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SODIUM; STRONTIUM;

DUST;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE;

EID: 84862841047     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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