Massive atmospheric nitrate accumulation in a continental interior desert, Northwestern China

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 623-626

  Qin, Yan ^a   Li, Yanhe ^a   Bao, Huiming ^b   Liu, Feng ^a   Hou, Kejun ^a   Wan, Defang ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATACAMA; ATACAMA DESERT; ATMOSPHERIC NITRATES; ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION; DRY VALLEY; EARTH'S SURFACE; HIGH SOLUBILITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MOJAVE DESERT; NON-POLAR; NORTHERN CHILE; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TRIPLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION;

ARID REGIONS; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

NITRATES;

ACCUMULATION RATE; DESERT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITRATE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SOLUBILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANTARCTICA; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; CHINA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 84864323776     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32953.1     Document Type: Article

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