Use of rare earth element patterns to trace the provenance of the atmospheric dust near Beijing, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 871-879

  Tang, Yang ^a   Han, Guilin ^a   Wu, Qixin ^b   Xu, Zhifang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Atmospheric dust; Beijing; Provenance; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; BEIJING; BEIJING , CHINA; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES); TEMPORAL PATTERN; URBAN AIR QUALITY;

DUST;

AIR QUALITY; ARCHEAN; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SHALE; TOPSOIL; TRACE GAS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84872336062     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1791-z     Document Type: Article

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