Identifying sources of aeolian mineral dust: Present and past

Mineral Dust: A Key Player in the Earth System

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 51-74

  Muhs, Daniel R ^a   Prospero, Joseph M ^b   Baddock, Matthew C ^c   Gill, Thomas E ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid regions; Back trajectory analysis; Chemistry; Composition; Elements; Glaciated regions; Isotopes; Mineralogy; Satellite imagery; Semiarid regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930900211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_3     Document Type: Chapter

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