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The Persistence Of Lead From Past Gasoline Emissions And Mining Drainage In A Large Riparian System: Evidence From Lead Isotopes In The Sacramento River, California, C. E. Dunlap, Charles N. Alpers, R. Bouse, H. E. Taylor, D. M. Unruh, A. R. Flegal
The Persistence Of Lead From Past Gasoline Emissions And Mining Drainage In A Large Riparian System: Evidence From Lead Isotopes In The Sacramento River, California, C. E. Dunlap, Charles N. Alpers, R. Bouse, H. E. Taylor, D. M. Unruh, A. R. Flegal
Charles Dunlap
Lead concentrations and isotope ratios measured in river water colloids and streambed sediment samples along 426 km of the Sacramento River, California reveal that the influence of lead from the historical mining of massive sulfide deposits in the West Shasta Cu-mining district (at the headwaters of the Sacramento River) is confined to a 60 km stretch of river immediately downstream of that mining region, whereas inputs from past leaded gasoline emissions and historical hydraulic Au-mining in the Sierra Nevadan foothills are the dominant lead sources in the remaining 370 km of the river. Binary mixing calculations suggest that more than …