Open-File Report 2007–1153
This report presents data and describes the methodology for magnetic, geochemical, and textural measurements of sediment and bedrock samples collected along a transect across the Southwestern United States (fig. 1). The results presented here support a study that examines compositional variations of mineral dust deposited during the past few centuries in isolated natural traps spanning a region from the Mojave Desert of southern California to the central Colorado Plateau (Goldstein and others, in press; fig. 1). In particular, the study addresses the spatial and temporal variations in dust composition in the context of landscape geochemistry over a large area of the southwestern United States. |
Version 1.0 Posted May 2007 |
Goldstein, H.L., Reynolds,
R.L., Reheis, M.C., Yount, J.C., and Lamothe, P.J., 2007, Physical
and Chemical Data from Eolian Sediment Collected along a Transect from the
Mojave Desert to the Colorado Plateau: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1153, 29 p.