Sr-Nd isotope evidence for modern aeolian dust sources in mountain glaciers of western China

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 58, Issue 211, 2012, Pages 859-865

  Xu, Jianzhong ^a   Yu, Guangming ^a   Kang, Shichang ^b   Hou, Shugui ^a,c   Zhang, Qianggong ^b   Ren, Jiawen ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; SNOW; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CHINA; GURBANTUNGGUT DESERT; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84867223851     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2012JoG12J006     Document Type: Article

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