Rare earth elements as reactive tracers of biogeochemical weathering in forested rhyolitic terrain

Chemical Geology

Volumn 391, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-32

  Vázquez Ortega, Angélica ^a   Perdrial, Julia ^a   Harpold, Adrian ^a,c   Zapata Ríos, Xavier ^a   Rasmussen, Craig ^a   McIntosh, Jennifer ^a   Schaap, Marcel ^a   Pelletier, Jon D ^b   Brooks, Paul D ^a   Amistadi, Mary Kay ^a   Chorover, Jon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological weathering; Ce anomaly; Critical zone; Dissolved organic carbon; Eu anomaly; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDE MINERALS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; RIVERS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING; CHEMICAL DENUDATION; COMPOSITIONAL SIMILARITIES; CRITICAL ZONES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FELDSPAR DISSOLUTION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES);

EUROPIUM;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MOBILIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SOIL WATER; STREAMWATER; TRACER;

JEMEZ BASIN; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES; VALLES CALDERA NATIONAL PRESERVE;

EID: 84909992800     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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