Quantifying chemical weathering intensity and trace element release from two contrasting basalt profiles, Deccan Traps, India

Chemical Geology

Volumn 363, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-75

  Babechuk, M G ^a,b   Widdowson, M ^c   Kamber, B S ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deccan Traps; Europium anomaly; Index of lateritisation; Mafic index of alteration; Sm Nd; Weathering index

Indexed keywords

DECCAN TRAPS; EUROPIUM ANOMALIES; INDEX OF LATERITISATION; MAFIC INDEX OF ALTERATION; WEATHERING INDICES;

ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BASALT; BERYLLIUM; CALCIUM; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; NIOBIUM; ROCK PRODUCTS; SODIUM; SOILS; SUBSTRATES; TERNARY ALLOYS;

WEATHERING;

BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLUTION; EUROPIUM; FRACTIONATION; LATERITIZATION; NEODYMIUM; PLAGIOCLASE; SAMARIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; WEATHERING PROFILE;

DECCAN; INDIA;

EID: 84888057630     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.10.027     Document Type: Article

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