Impacts of river impoundment on the riverine water chemistry composition and their response to chemical weathering rate

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 351-360

  Gao, Yang ^a   Wang, Baoli ^b   Liu, Xiaolong ^c   Wang, Yuchun ^d   Zhang, Jing ^a   Jiang, Yanxing ^a   Wang, Fushun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

chemical weathering rate; reservoirs in series; Wujiang

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; IMPOUNDMENT; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING RATE;

CHINA; WUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84880838641     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-013-0366-y     Document Type: Article

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