Mono Lake Data

Authors

Larry V. Benson, United States Geological SurveyFollow

Date of this Version

2017

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Mono Lake Basin Data\ Depth CalAge TIC TOTC TOC 13C 18O

Mono Lake short cores.xlsx 03.03.2014 19:59:44 0.06 xlsx

Depth PSV age 18O 13C

TIC for Wilson Crk Fm.xlsx 02.03.2014 16:07:10 0.03 xlsx

Ostracode 18O and TE data Wilson Crk Fm.xlsx 10.11.2017 17:43:18 0.12 xlsx

Depth, calendar age, TIC, TOTC, TOC, ¹³C, and ¹⁸O of Mono Lake short cores were reported in:

Benson, L., Linsley, B., Smoot, J., Mensing, S., Lund, S., Stine, S., and Sarna-Wojcicki, A., 2003, Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the climate of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada: Quaternary Research. Quaternary Research vol. 59, p. 51-159.

Depth, PSV age, ¹⁸O, ¹³C, and TIC data for the Wilson Creek Formations were reported in:

Benson, L.V., 1999, Records of millennial-scale climate change from the Great Basin of the Western United States: In Clark, P., Webb, R., Keigwin, L., eds., Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales, American Geophysical Union Monograph 112, p. 203-225.

Benson, L., 2003, Western Lakes: Chapter 9 in Gillespie, A. R., Porter, S. C., & Atwater, B., eds. The Quaternary Period in the United States: Developments in Quaternary Science, vol. 1 (Elsevier), p. 185-204.

Benson, L.V., Lund, S.P., Burdett, J.W., Kashgarian, M., Rose, T.P., Smoot, J.P., and Schwartz, M., 1998, Correlation of Late-Pleistocene lake level oscillations in Mono Lake, California, with North Atlantic climate events: Quaternary Research, vol. 49, p. 1-10.

Benson, L., Lund, S., Negrini, R., Linsley, B., and Zic, M., 2003, Response of North American Great Basin lakes to Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations: Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 22, p. 2239-2251.

Ostracode ¹⁸O and trace element data for the Wilson Creek Formation were reported in:

Weimer, M.B. (1997). An examination of solute evolution and lake level fluctuations of Mono Lake, California, using minor element and oxygen isotope chemistries of the ostracod limnocythere ceriotuberosa. Unpublished Master of Science thesis, University of Southern Colorado

Benson, L., 2003, Western Lakes: Chapter 9 in Gillespie, A. R., Porter, S. C., & Atwater, B., eds. The Quaternary Period in the United States: Developments in Quaternary Science, vol. 1 (Elsevier), p. 185-204.

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.