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Seasonal Variations In Water Chemistry And Primary Productivity In Four Alkaline Lakes In The Sandhills Of Western Nebraska, John A. Schnagl

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Between the Platte and Niobrara Rivers in western and central Nebraska lie over 25,000 square kilometers of dune sand. The dunes have lost their sculptured shapes and windswept edges, being shrouded beneath a mantle of grass and fine loess soil. Only at the blowouts, where wind has cut away this mantle forming cavities in the sides of hills, is the sand exposed.

Dotting this rolling prairie grassland in the depressions between the dunes are small lakes. Over 2000 lakes of widely varied salinities and alkalinities accent the topography of the dunes.

Blue Lake, Roundup Lake, Goose Lake, and Bob’s Lake, …