Geochemical characteristics and depositional environment of Kalpakkam, southeast coast of India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2357-2364

  Deepthi, K ^a   Natesan, Usha ^a   Muthulakshmi, A L ^a   Ferrer, Vincent A ^a   Venugopalan, V P ^b   Narasimhan, S V ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Beach; Chemical weathering; Geochemistry; Kalpakkam; Provenance; Seabed

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; KALPAKKAM; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PROVENANCE; SEABED; SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA;

BEACHES; FELDSPAR; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICA; QUARTZ; SILICON; UNDERWATER MINERAL RESOURCES; WEATHERING;

SEDIMENTS;

BEACH; BIOTITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FELDSPAR; GARNET; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TECTONIC SETTING;

INDIA; KALPAKKAM; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84880508420     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2065-5     Document Type: Article

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