Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25Ma in the northern South China Sea: A review of competing proxies

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-102

  Clift, Peter D ^a,b   Wan, Shiming ^c   Blusztajn, Jerzy ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Erosion; Monsoon; Sediment geochemistry; South China Sea; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY MINERAL; EROSION; MONSOON; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING RATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84893398697     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.01.002     Document Type: Review

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