Author:
Brunskill G. J.,Povoledo D.,Graham B. W.,Stainton M. P.
Abstract
This paper contains some descriptive chemical data on bedrock, soils, and profundal lake sediments of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA). The acid granodiorite bedrock and the plagioclase–K-feldspar–quartz glacial drift of the region exhibit low rates of chemical weathering. Terrestrial vegetation, soil organic matter, and the fine fraction of the glacial drift are concentrated in the lake sediments. The major minerals of the lake sediments are quartz, plagioclase, K-feldspar, illite, chlorite, kaolinite. Loss on ignition for the lake sediment samples varies from 18 to 62% dry weight, organic carbon from 8 to 34% dry weight, total nitrogen from 0.9 to 3.5% dry weight, and total phosphorus from 0.1 to 0.3% dry weight. These surficial lake sediment samples are 88–96% water, and concentrations of major ions in sediment interstitial water are 1.5–5 times the concentration of major ions in lake water.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
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