Estimating selenium removal by sedimentation from the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 936-949

  Oliver, Wade ^a   Fuller, Christopher ^b   Naftz, David L ^c   Johnson, William P ^a   Diaz, Ximena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREAT SALT LAKES; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; REMOVAL MECHANISMS; REMOVAL PROCESS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SELENIUM REMOVALS; SHORT CORES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

CESIUM; CHLORIDE MINERALS; LAKES; LEAD; RADIOISOTOPES; SALT REMOVAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SELENIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SEDIMENTATION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; RADIONUCLIDE; SALINE LAKE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SELENIUM;

GREAT SALT LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 64749100474     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.02.023     Document Type: Article

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