A multi-year record of chemical and isotopic composition of water from springs of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

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Acquisition: 1996-05-04
Last Update: 2017-04-18
Publication Date: 2017-11-27

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Busenberg, Eurybiades, Plummer, L.N., Doughten, M.W., Widman, P.K., Casile, G.C., Wayland, J.E., Nelms, D.L., Coplen T.B., and Haase, K.B., 2017, A multi-year record of chemical and isotopic composition of water from springs of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GH9H50.

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This data release provides additional data collected since the original publication of: Busenberg, Eurybiades, Plummer, L.N., Coplen, T.B., Doughten, M.W., Widman, P.K., Casile, G.C., Wayland, J.E., and Nelms, D.L., 2014, A 19-year record of chemical and isotopic composition of water from springs of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1995–2014: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 893, 11 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds893. ISSN 2327-638X (online) This data release represents to original 2014 U.S. Geological Survey Data Series along with additional data collected in Shenandoah National Park up to April 18, 2017. The data release consists of two files: a spreadsheet consisting of multiple worksheets, and a data dictionary that [...]

Summary

This data release provides additional data collected since the original publication of:
Busenberg, Eurybiades, Plummer, L.N., Coplen, T.B., Doughten, M.W., Widman, P.K., Casile, G.C., Wayland, J.E., and Nelms, D.L., 2014, A 19-year record of chemical and isotopic composition of water from springs of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1995–2014: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 893, 11 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds893. ISSN 2327-638X (online)

This data release represents to original 2014 U.S. Geological Survey Data Series along with additional data collected in Shenandoah National Park up to April 18, 2017. The data release consists of two files: a spreadsheet consisting of multiple worksheets, and a data dictionary that describes the worksheets, the data within, and cross references the data in the release to the original 2014 publication.

From 1994 through 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Park Service, Luray, Virginia Station collected and analyzed samples of selected springs, air and unsaturated-zone gases in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. These data include field measurements of water temperature, specific conductance, concentrations of dissolved oxygen (O2), and pH. Laboratory measurements included major-, minor-, and trace-element chemistry; concentrations of dissolved gases (nitrogen, [N2] argon [Ar], oxygen, and carbon dioxide [CO2]); concentrations of dissolved trace atmospheric gases, including trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12), and trichlorotrifluoroethane (CFC-113) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6); and hydrogen stable isotopic composition (δ2H) and oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of water. The data include an up to multi-year time series record of monthly sampling at five springs collected between 1995 and 2013. The measurements included temperature, specific conductance, pH, and discharge recorded at 30-minute intervals. Atmospheric mixing ratios of CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, trifluorobromomethane (CF3Br), SF6, and trifluoromethyl sulfur pentafluoride (SF5CF3) in air from the Big Meadows Air Monitoring Station, Shenandoah National Park, were measured at approximately weekly intervals from
September 1995 through April 2017.

Additional data include monthly (between May 2001 and August 2003) measurements of temperature, N2, O2, Ar, CO2, CFC-12, CFC-11, CFC-113, and SF6 concentrations in unsaturated-zone air from seven multilevel piezometers in Shenandoah National Park and at the U.S. Geological Survey National Center in Reston, Virginia.

All samples were analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories in Reston, Virginia.

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Creator :: Karl B Haase
Originator :: Karl B Haase
Metadata Contact :: Karl B Haase
publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :: Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :: National Research Program

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A 19-Year Record of Chemical and Isotopic Composition of Water from Springs of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1995–2014 By Eurybiades Busenberg, L. Niel Plummer, Tyler B. Coplen, Michael W. Doughten, Peggy K. Widman, Gerolamo C. Casile, Julian E. Wayland, and David L. Nelms	http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds893
A 17-Year Record of Environmental Tracers in Spring Discharge, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA: Use of Climatic Data and Environmental Conditions to Interpret Discharge, Dissolved Solutes, and Tracer Concentrations By E. Busenberg, and L.N. Plummer	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10498-013-9202-y

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This data set was collected to study the long term trends in water quality, chemistry, isotope ratios, and groundwater age tracers in Shenandoah National Park.

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