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Lasser, Jana; Goehring, Lucas (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens Lake and Badwater Basin in central California, collected in 2016 and 2018 [dataset publication series]. Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910996

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Abstract:
The data set contains information about sand grain sizes of salt deserts showing salt polygons at the surface. The data set characterizes the subsurface of the salt deserts and is used together with other data sets (which characterize the surface) to explain the driving mechanism of salt polygon growth in salt deserts.
The subsurface is characterized by grain size distributions of samples taken from different depths between 5 cm and 100 cm below the salt crust. Grain size distributions were measured with a laser particle sizer. Samples were not treated with ultrasound previous to measurement. The distributions supplied in the data set are averages over 3 consecutive measurements for every sample.
Samples were taken at 5 sites at Badwater Basin and 21 sites at Owens Lake - both Central California. All data was recorded during two field campaigns in November / December 2016 and January 2018.
Related to this data are also
- images, characterizing each site (see data at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911054),
- salinity profiles from cross-sections below polygons and background salt concentration measurements (see data at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.922264),
- temperature and humidity time-series measured during one week in late 2016 (see data at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.922231),
- as well as surface scans measured by TLS (see data at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911233)
- and a chemical characterization of the salt species present in the crust (see data at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911239).
Keyword(s):
Badwater Basin; California; Death Valley; Grain Size; laser particle sizer; Owens Lake; pattern; salt; Salt desert; salt polygon; salt ridge
Related to:
Lasser, Jana (2019): Geophysical Pattern Formation of Salt Playa (PhD thesis). Georg-August Universität Göttingen, https://doi.org/10.53846/goediss-7343
Lasser, Jana; Nield, Joanna M; Ernst, Marcel; Karius, Volker; Wiggs, Giles F S; Goehring, Lucas (2019): Salt Polygons are Caused by Convection. Nonlinear Sciences > Pattern Formation and Solitons, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03600
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 36.378195 * Median Longitude: -117.582332 * South-bound Latitude: 36.227500 * West-bound Longitude: -117.980400 * North-bound Latitude: 36.898280 * East-bound Longitude: -116.778700
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Badwater Basin site P1 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910880
  2. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Badwater Basin site P2 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910989
  3. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Badwater Basin site P3 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910990
  4. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Badwater Basin site P4 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910991
  5. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Badwater Basin site P5 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910992
  6. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T2-4_P1 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911009
  7. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T2-5 in central California, collected in 2016 and 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911011
  8. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T8-W_P1 in central California, collected in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911012
  9. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T10-3_P1 in central California, collected in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911013
  10. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T16 in central California, collected in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911014
  11. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T25-3 in central California, collected in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911016
  12. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T27-A in central California, collected in 2016 and 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911017
  13. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T27-S_P1 in central California, collected in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911018
  14. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T29-3 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911019
  15. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T32-1-L1 in central California, collected in 2016 and 2018. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911020
  16. Lasser, J; Goehring, L (2020): Grain size distributions of sand samples from Owens lake site T36-3 in central California, collected in 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911021