Provenance versus weathering control on the composition of tropical river mud (southern Africa)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 366, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-74

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Padoan, Marta ^a   Setti, Massimo ^b   López Galindo, Alberto ^c   Villa, Igor M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering indices; Clay minerals; Model mantle derivation ages; Recycling; Sr and Nd isotopic ratios; Zambezi, Limpopo and Okavango Rivers

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENIC CARBONATES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENTS; CLAY MINERALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; KAOLINITE; LITHOLOGY; MINERALS; RECYCLING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

WEATHERING;

AGE DETERMINATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY MINERAL; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PROVENANCE; RECYCLING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

KUNENE RIVER; LIMPOPO RIVER; NAMIBIA; OKAVANGO; OLIFANTS RIVER; ORANGE RIVER; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 84892467584     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.12.016     Document Type: Article

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