Carbonate composition and its impact on fluvial geochemistry in the NE Tibetan Plateau region

Chemical Geology

Volumn 410, Issue , 2015, Pages 138-148

  Yang, Yibo ^a   Fang, Xiaomin ^a,b   Galy, Albert ^c   Zhang, Gengxin ^a   Liu, Shaochen ^c   Zan, Jinbo ^a,b   Wu, Fuli ^a,b   Meng, Qingquan ^d   Ye, Chengcheng ^a   Yang, Rongsheng ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calcite precipitation; Carbonate weathering; Fluvial geochemistry; Incongruent calcite dissolution; NE tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICATES; WEATHERING;

AUTHIGENIC CARBONATES; CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE WEATHERING; INCONGRUENT CALCITE DISSOLUTIONS; INCONGRUENT DISSOLUTIONS; NE TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; WEATHERING STUDIES;

CARBONATION;

BEDROCK; CALCITE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLUTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84932599982     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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