Sediment provenance in the Shudu Lake basin, northwest Yunnan Province, China, as revealed by composite fingerprinting

Erde

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-29

  Yao, Yuan ^a,b   Zhang, Enlou ^a   Kuhn, Nikolaus ^c   Jones, Richard ^d   Langdon, Peter ^e   Shen, Ji ^a   Greenwood, Philip ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b East China Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Composite fingerprinting technique; Lake catchment; Sediment source; Yunnan Province

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894024818     PISSN: 00139998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12854/erde-144-2     Document Type: Article

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