Great Basin Surface Water and Precipitation Isotope Data

Authors

Larry V. Benson, United States Geological SurveyFollow

Date of this Version

2017

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In the Great Basin Surface Water and Precipitation Isotope Data folder:

Farad, Nixon, and Pyramid Lake 18O data were reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1994, Stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the Truckee River-Pyramid Lake surface-water system. 1. Data analysis and extraction of paleoclimatic information: Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 39, p. 344-355. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1015

Spring chemistry around Pyramid Lake data were reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1994, Carbonate deposition, Pyramid Lake subbasin, Nevada: 1. Sequence of formation and elevational distribution of carbonate deposits (tufas): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 109, p. 55-87.

Benson, L.V., Kashgarian M., and Rubin, M., 1995, Carbonate deposition, Pyramid Lake subbasin, Nevada: 2. Lake levels and polar jet stream positions reconstructed from radiocarbon ages and elevations of carbonate deposits (tufas): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 117, p. 1-30. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1014

Tahoe precipitation isotope data were reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1994, Stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the Truckee River-Pyramid Lake surface-water system. 1. Data analysis and extraction of paleoclimatic information: Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 39, p. 344-355. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1015

Walker Lake open water isotope data were in part reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1988, Preliminary paleolimnologic data for the Walker Lake subbasin, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4258, 50p. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgspubs/132

However, much of this data has not been previously published.

Western Great Basin surface water and precipitation data were in part reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1994, Stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the Truckee River-Pyramid Lake surface-water system. 1. Data analysis and extraction of paleoclimatic information: Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 39, p. 344-355. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1015

However, much of this data have not been previously published.

Name Date modified Time modified Size MB Extension

Great Basin Surface Water and Precipitation Isotope Data\

Farad, Nixon, and Pyramid Lake O18 and 2H data.xls 11.11.2017 22:34:40 0.24 xls

Springs around Pyramid Lake.xlsx 12.11.2017 16:23:02 0.01 xlsx

Tahoe precip isotope data.xlsx 09.11.2017 20:56:40 0.02 xlsx

Walker Lake open water isotope data.xlsx 12.11.2017 15:57:30 0.01 xlsx

Western G. Basin Lake, River, and Precip isotope data.xlsx 27.01.2018 00:54:12 0.09 xlsx

General Comment: In most cases an age model based on ¹⁴C analyses is not included with the data sets although ones were created for the original publications. Given the general problems with ¹⁴C ages in the lakes of the Great Basin, age models based on paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) are much preferred. However the original ¹⁴C data are included below so that the reader may create their own age models. Most of the calibrated ages in this data base have been done more recently than the times of original publication so they may not exactly match the dates in the publications.