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Chemical analyses and histopathology of organisms and plants collected from breccia pipe uranium mine sites in the Grand Canyon watershed, 2015-2020

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Start Date
2015
End Date
2020

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Cleveland, D.M., Hinck, J.E., and Lankton, J.S., 2020, Chemical analyses and histopathology of organisms and plants collected from breccia pipe uranium mine sites in the Grand Canyon watershed, 2015-2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94OVQO9.

Summary

These data are comprised of measurements of aluminum, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, arsenic, selenium, molybdenum, silver, cadmium, thallium, lead, bismuth, thorium, uranium, and mercury in invertebrates, vegetation, and small rodents. Gross alpha activity, gross beta activity, and radionuclide activities (isotopic U, isotopic Th) are also presented for vegetation; radioactivities for small rodents were previously presented at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HARTQ4. Histopathology results are given for liver and kidney lesions generally associated with metals toxicoses in small rodents. Samples were collected at the Pinenut Mine (active mining) and Arizona 1 Mine (post-production) in the Grand Canyon watershed. The non-mineralized [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Danielle M Cleveland
Process Contact :
Julia S Lankton
Originator :
Danielle M Cleveland, Jo E Hinck, Julia S Lankton
Metadata Contact :
CERC Data Managers
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Environmental Health

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Chemical analyses and histopathology of organisms and plants from mine sites.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		124.83 KB application/fgdc+xml
Elements.txt 385 Bytes text/plain
Herps-Mammals-Elements.txt 183.75 KB text/plain
Histopathology - REVISED.txt 33.12 KB text/plain
Invertebrate Elements.txt 18.12 KB text/plain
Sites.txt 272 Bytes text/plain
Vegetation Elements.txt 222.83 KB text/plain
Vegetation Radioactivity.txt 36.87 KB text/plain

Purpose

These data were obtained to assess uptake and exposure of radionuclides and elements in biota as a result of U mining in the Grand Canyon watershed. Results are reflective of site conditions at the time of collection.

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