Impacts of grain size sorting and chemical weathering on the geochemistry of Jingyuan loess in the northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-184

  Liang, Lianji ^a,b   Sun, Youbin ^a   Beets, Christiaan J ^c   Prins, Maarten A ^c   Wu, Feng ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Chinese loess; East Asian monsoon; Elemental geochemistry; Grain size sorting

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; MONSOON; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SORTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84877153687     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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