Iron-rich nanoparticles formed by aeolian abrasion of desert dune sand

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3720-3729

  Baddock, Matthew ^a   Boskovic, Lucija ^a   Strong, Craig ^a   McTainsh, Grant ^a   Bullard, Joanna ^b   Agranovski, Igor ^a   Cropp, Roger ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abrasion; dust; iron; sand dunes; ultrafines

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; DUST; IRON; NANOPARTICLES; SAND; TRIBOLOGY;

AEOLIAN ABRASION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; NANO-SIZED PARTICLES; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SAND DUNES; ULTRA-FINES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ABRASION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; IRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SALTATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84886707459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20229     Document Type: Article

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