ESR signal intensity and crystallinity of quartz from Gobi and sandy deserts in East Asia and implication for tracing Asian dust provenance

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2615-2627

  Sun, Youbin ^a   Chen, Hongyun ^a,b   Tada, Ryuji ^c   Weiss, Dominik ^d,e   Lin, Min ^f   Toyoda, Shin ^g   Yan, Yan ^a   Isozaki, Yuko ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

^g OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian dust sources; crystallinity index; dust provenance; electron spin resonance; quartz

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DUST; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUARTZ;

ASIAN DUST; CRYSTALLINITY INDEX; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROVENANCE TRACERS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT;

LANDFORMS;

CRYSTALLINITY; DUST; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ;

BADANJILIN DESERT; CHINA; GOBI DESERT; MONGOLIA; ORDOS; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TENGGER DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84885168248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20162     Document Type: Article

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