The environmental implications for dust in high-alpine snow and ice cores in Asian mountains

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 22-29

  Wu, Guangjian ^a,b   Zhang, Chenglong ^c   Zhang, Xuelei ^d   Xu, Tianli ^a,e   Yan, Ni ^a,e   Gao, Shaopeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Element composition; Ice core; Implication

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DUST; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; SNOW;

ASIAN DUST; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ICE CORE; IMPLICATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ICE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE CORE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SNOW;

CHINA; MUZTAGATA; PAMIRS; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84913593647     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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