Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2-28 Phase II summary report (final) : Utah Lake water quality, hydrology and aquatic biology impact analysis summary for the irrigation and drainage system--Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 2-28 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 2-28 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; As a result of the experiments brimhall and merritt 1976 on the conversion of aquatic sediments to soil it has been discerned that utah lake sediments become adobe upon initial dessication dessi cation and then gradually change to a granular mass principally through the action of freezing and thawing during the colder months such granular material should then convert to a soil like material within a few years of exposure the ability of such soil to support vegetation or agricultural crops is is not known at the present time but the mechanical conversion of adobe to soil gives hope for successful support of plant species based on particle size distribu dis distribution tribu tion teon utah lake sediments were divided into four types by bingham 1975 each more or less characteristic of a given environment the following description of each sediment type was taken from bingham 1975 middle sediments typically these sediments contain very minor amounts of coarse elastics coarse to very fine grained sand individual coarse fractions usually do not exceed 1 percent by weight of a total sample the bulk of the clastic particles in middle sediments are clay size 15 to 21 percent with slightly lesser amounts of silt size particles 10 to 19 percent calcium carbonate is abundant and makes up the majority of the sediment 61 to 73 percent these sediments comprise most of the open lake and areas that are distant from the clastic depocenters depo centers outer offshore sediments this type of sediment is characterized by small amounts of coarse particles 0 to 5 percent with an increase in very fine grained sand as compared to mid lake sediments silt sized particles 13 to 36 percent dominate the clastics elastics classics with clay percentages being slightly less 10 to 32 percent calcium carbonate is also abundant 27 to 71 percent mid lake and outer offshore sediments contain abundant pore water plus minor amounts of organic material outer offshore sediments 228 2 28 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9901 |
