Reorganization of the Asian climate from one dominated by global planetary wind systems
to a regional monsoon climate is closely related to the surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau …

Redox-sensitive transition group elements are involved in almost all fundamental
geochemical processes. Of these elements, vanadium (V) contributes a particularly powerful …

The Treatise on Geochemistry is the first work providing a comprehensive, integrated
summary of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field …

Heavy metal pollution of sediments is a growing concern in most parts of the world, and
numerous studies focussed on identifying contaminated sediments by using a range of …

The increasing number of rare earth elements (REEs) studies in the past decade has been
induced by their wider applications in industry, including electronics and high technology …

Estimates of the average composition of various Precambrian shields and a variety of
estimates of the average composition of upper continental crust show considerable …

terrestrial rocks. By the year 1850, 18 elements had been identified in meteorites: carbon,
oxygen, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorous, sulfur, potassium, calcium …

Ubiquitous heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle has been documented by numerous
chemical and isotopic analyses of oceanic basalts. Despite the ever-increasing amount of …

Arc magmas and the continental crust share many chemical features, but a major question
remains as to whether these features are created by subduction or are recycled from …

Mesozoic volcanic rocks and granitoids are widespread in the Great **ng'an Range, which
is part of a large igneous province in the eastern China. However, the ages of the volcanic …