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Radon Isotopes and Stable Water Isotopes from Coal Creek Watershed, Colorado (2021)

Creators: Keira Johnson, John Christensen, Kenneth Hurst Williams, William Payton Gardner, Pamela Sullivan, Wendy Brown, Curtis BeutlerORCID, Nicholas ThirosORCID
Year: 2023
DOI: 10.15485/2283437
License: CC-BY 4.0
Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry. The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C. et al. (2022) doi:10.15485/1660962
Temporal extent: 2020-11-18 to 2021-10-19
Bounding box: 38.880°N to 39.034°N, -107.050°W to -106.880°W
Publisher: ESS_DIVE
Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION, CATEGORICAL:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > ISOTOPES > STABLE ISOTOPES, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > ISOTOPES > RADIOISOTOPES, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > GROUND WATER FEATURES > FRESHWATER SPRINGS, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER FEATURES > RIVERS/STREAMS, VARIABLE:GCMD ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Groundwater, Geology & Tectonics, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Environmental Contamination, Mining & Mineral Resources, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

The radon isotope and stable water isotope data for Coal Creek Watershed, Colorado, consists of d2H, d18O, and 222Rn values from samples collected at 8 stream location along Coal Creek, samples from 7 groundwater springs within the watershed, and precipitation isotope samples collected by Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) from a collector within the watershed. All stream and spring samples were collected between June and October, 2021, and precipitation isotope samples were collected between November 2020 and September 2021. These data were collected to evaluate how groundwater contributions to Coal Creek originating from a fractured hillslope and alluvial fan respond to summer monsoon rains and seasonal drying. Understanding of groundwater-surface water interactions in montane systems in critical for the future of water availability in the Western US as groundwater contributions are expected to become more important for sustaining summer stream flows. This data package contains: (1) a csv of all radon samples; (2) a csv of all stream and spring isotope samples; (3) a csv of precipitation isotope samples; and (4) a csv of locations for each sampling site. The dataset additionally includes a file-level metadata (flmd.csv) file that lists each file contained in the dataset with associated metadata; and a data dictionary (dd.csv) file that contains column/row headers used throughout the files along with a definition, units, and data type.

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