Characteristics of water isotopes and ice-snowmelt quantification in the Tizinafu River, north Kunlun Mountains, Central Asia

Quaternary International

Volumn 380-381, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-122

  Fan, Yuting ^a,b   Chen, Yaning ^a   Li, Xingong ^a   Li, Weihong ^a   Li, Qihu ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrological separation; Ice snowmelt water; Isotope; Tizinafu River

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RIVER WATER; SNOWMELT; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; TIZINAFU RIVER;

EID: 84940597793     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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