Anthropogenic influence on sedimentation during the last 100 years inferred from magnetic properties in the Changjiang Estuary, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1671-1680

  Wang, Yonghong ^a,b   Oguchi, Takashi ^c   Ridd, Peter V ^d   Shen, Huanting ^e  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Human activities; Magnetic properties; Sediments; The Changjiang Estuary

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; CHANGJIANG ESTUARY; GRAVITY CORE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; STEEL PRODUCTION; TERRIGENOUS INPUTS;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTS; STEELMAKING;

ESTUARIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DRAINAGE BASIN; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL EROSION; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 84884905752     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2254-x     Document Type: Article

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