Mineralogy of northern Indian Ocean surface sediments and of suspended sediments of Indian rivers (Table 2 and 5)

The solid phases from surface sediments, atmospheric dusts, and rivers of the Indian Ocean environment have been analyzed for their clay minerals and quartz. Such data have been used to delimit the transport paths and sources of the detrital minerals in the oceanic deposits. Diagnostic in distinguishing fluvial and eolian inputs to the northern Indian Ocean is a combination of the clay mineral assemblages and of their geographic distributions. […]

对印度洋环境表层沉积物、大气尘埃和河流的固体相进行了粘土矿物和石英的分析。此类数据已被用于界定海洋沉积物中碎屑矿物的传输路径和来源。在区分北部印度洋的河流和风尘输入方面，粘土矿物组合及其地理分布的结合构成了诊断性特征。