Rare earth elements (REE) are a homogenous group of 17 chemical elements in the
periodic table that are key to many modern industries including chemicals, consumer …

Regolith-hosted rare earth element (REE) deposits, also called ion-adsorption or weathered
crust elution-deposited REE deposits are distributed over Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian …

Weathering profiles developed on basalt substrate contain information relevant to climate,
atmospheric composition and evolution, nutrient release into the hydrosphere, and …

Over the past decades, rare earth elements (REE) and their radioactive isotopes have
received tremendous attention in sedimentary geochemistry, as tracers for the geological …

Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

A series of shales and sandstones found near the source of the Sangre de Cristo, Belden,
and Maroon Formations from central Colorado were examined petrographically and were …

Twenty-three clastic metasediments from the Kongling high-grade terrain of the Yangtze
craton, South China were analyzed for major, trace and rare earth elements and Sm-Nd …

Petrographic, major, trace, and rare earth element compositions of sandstones from the
upper Miocene Kudankulam Formation, Southern India, have been investigated to …

Shales of the Lakhanda Group of Late Mezoproterozoic age (1050–1000 Ma) from the
southeastern Siberian craton in Russia have been analyzed for major elements and a …

This review aims at considering the use of REEs to trace pedogenetic processes, in order to
quantify the respective contribution of the successive processes on pedogenesis. We first …