Walker Lake, Nevada

Case Studies. The discussion of individual studies in this paper are intended as brief summaries of important results from a variety of ancient and modern lake sediments discussed in other papers (13-16). These studies include two Paleogene lacustrine oil shales—the Green River Formation (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming) and the Rundle Formation (Queensland, Australia). The locations of these formations are shown in Figure 3, and key characteristics of the deposits are compared in Table I. Also included are results from studies of three modern productive saline lakes (Soap Lake, Washington Great Salt Lake, Utah and Walker Lake, Nevada) and two... 

Soap Lake, Washington Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Great Salt Lake, Utah Walker Lake, Nevada approximate areal extent of Green River Formation, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and approximate areal extent of Rundle Formation, Queensland, Australia. 

Meyers, P. A., 1990. Impacts of regional Late Quaternary climate changes on the deposition of sedimentary organic matter in Walker Lake Nevada. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol. 78 229-240. 

Spencer, R. J., 1977. Silicate and Carbonate Sediment-water Relationships in Walker Lake, Nevada. M.S. thesis. University of Nevada. 

Walker Lake California-Nevada, USA 3 samples Weathering of geologic materials, hydrothermal sources 9.52 9.46 9.44 1029 1399 989, respectively Johannesson et al. (1997), 69... 

Table II. Morphometric and geochemical characteristics of Flodelle Creek spring pool (FC), Washington Lake Michigan (GL) Walker Lake (WL), Nevada Great Salt Lake (GSL), Utah and Soap Lake (SL), Washington. n.d., not detected.

Walker Lake. Walker Lake, located in west-central Nevada, is a remnant of pluvial Lake Lahontan, which, at its high stand, had a depth of 280 meters (21). Walker Lake is the terminus of the Walker River. Although its salinity is only 30% that of seawater, its sulfate concentration is identical to that of seawater (0.028 mol/L). The Walker Lake samples represent 300,000 years of depositional history (Yang, unpublished report). Preliminary interpretations of paleontological and mineralogical data (Benson and Spencer, written communication) suggest that lake levels have fluctuated. 

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