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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Routson CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4757576 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20160217 2
Two sediment records of dust deposition from Fish Lake, in southern Colorado, offer a new perspective on southwest United States (Southwest) aridity and dustiness over the last ~3000 years. Micro scanning X-ray fluorescence and grain size analysis provide separate measures of wind-deposited dust in the lake sediment. Together these new records confirm anomalous dustiness in the 19th and 20th centuries, associated with recent land disturbance, drought, and livestock grazing. Before significant an ...[more]