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Trace element deposition chronologies are presented for radionuclide dated sediment cores collected from four Utah lakes. A core collected from Mirror Lake, a remote lake located in northern Utah, records a century long period of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd and Sn. Trace element concentration profiles in a core collected from Panguitch Lake, a remote lake located in southern Utah, give no indication of enhanced atmospheric deposition of trace elements in that part of the state. Sediment cores collected from Echo Reservoir and Deer Creek Reservoir, located near Salt Lake City, record releases of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, As, Sb, and Tl rich mine wastes into watershed streams from the now defunct Park City mining complex.
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Kada, J., Heit, M. & Miller, K.M. Chronology of anthropogenic trace element input to four Utah lakes reconstructed using sediment cores. Water Air Soil Pollut 75, 353–369 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00482946
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