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The rocks and soils that are the foundation of our environment leave an imprint on the chemistry of our water and our lives. This chemical landscape reflects a combination of natural history and cumulative human impacts, and it influences biodiversity and human health. Geochemical mapping thus is needed to clarify elemental variations, and to support assessment of the natural and human-influenced factors that dictate these variations. The Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), therefore have assembled three geochemical data sets for soil and water as a basis for an atlas that will provide an overview of geochemical patterns, and a reference that will place more thorough environmental geochemical surveys into a context. Data contributed to the project were derived from soil, soil parent material, and well water samples analyzed following USGS, Geological Survey of Canada, and Environmental Protection Agency protocols, respectively. The soil data include stream sediments largely in the western part of the state, and the soil parent material data are from sites underlain by till. The well water samples were from multiple aquifers utilized for drinking water, at greatly varying depth and geology. The analyzed fraction for soils was <150 microns, for soil parent materials it was <63 microns, and both employed a multi-acid near-total digestion. Soil geochemistry data, provided by the USGS, were derived from 1,352 samples. Maps were prepared by averaging the results from soil in the top 0.2 meter and at about 0.5 meter depth from the same sample site. The stream sediment data included in the soil maps were from west-central and western Minnesota, and a few additional samples in other parts of the state. Soil and some stream sediments were collected in 2004 and 2005. Most stream sediments were collected in 1979, under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program, and were reanalyzed by the USGS in 2005. Results for soil parent material were from 250 till samples collected at 1 to 2 meters depth that were analyzed as part of an indicator mineral survey conducted in 2004. The ground-water data provided by the MPCA was based on 954 water well samples collected between 1993 and 1996. The water well sampling was conducted in a nine square mile cell on 11-mile centers, within which one sample was collected from each identified aquifer used as a source of drinking water. Atlas pages were prepared for each variable, with maps for each sampling medium on a single page, along with a generalized explanation. Symbol categories were based on natural groupings in the data using the natural breaks method; values below detection were set to half the detection limit, or an arbitrary value in the case of the ground-water data. The data tables for each medium are available as Excel tables and as an ESRI geodatabase. Selected element maps and general landscape information are also presented as a poster to give an overview of the geochemical landscape and a basis for its interpretation in relation to geology. Together, the tables and database components provide a regional reference for environmental management and exploration that will typically rely on more detailed sampling. Construction of the atlas was funded by the Minnesota Minerals Coordinating Committee. The maps, poster, and data are available from the Minnesota Geological Survey web site, and additional information may be obtained from the MPCA and the USGS.
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Title: MINNESOTA SOIL, TILL, AND GROUND-WATER GEOCHEMICAL DATA
Author: kehanson
Comments: ABSTRACT
The rocks and soils that are the foundation of our environment leave an imprint on the chemistry of our water and our lives. This chemical landscape reflects a combination of natural history and cumulative human impacts, and it influences biodiversity and human health. Geochemical mapping thus is needed to clarify elemental variations, and to support assessment of the natural and human-influenced factors that dictate these variations. The Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), therefore have assembled three geochemical data sets for soil and water as a basis for an atlas that will provide an overview of geochemical patterns, and a reference that will place more thorough environmental geochemical surveys into a context. Data contributed to the project were derived from soil, soil parent material, and well water samples analyzed following USGS, Geological Survey of Canada, and Environmental Protection Agency protocols, respectively. The soil data include stream sediments largely in the western part of the state, and the soil parent material data are from sites underlain by till. The well water samples were from multiple aquifers utilized for drinking water, at greatly varying depth and geology. The analyzed fraction for soils was <150 microns, for soil parent materials it was <63 microns, and both employed a multi-acid near-total digestion. Soil geochemistry data, provided by the USGS, were derived from 1,352 samples. Maps were prepared by averaging the results from soil in the top 0.2 meter and at about 0.5 meter depth from the same sample site. The stream sediment data included in the soil maps were from west-central and western Minnesota, and a few additional samples in other parts of the state. Soil and some stream sediments were collected in 2004 and 2005. Most stream sediments were collected in 1979, under the National Uranium Resource Evaluation program, and were reanalyzed by the USGS in 2005. Results for soil parent material were from 250 till samples collected at 1 to 2 meters depth that were analyzed as part of an indicator mineral survey conducted in 2004. The ground-water data provided by the MPCA was based on 954 water well samples collected between 1993 and 1996. The water well sampling was conducted in a nine square mile cell on 11-mile centers, within which one sample was collected from each identified aquifer used as a source of drinking water. Atlas pages were prepared for each variable, with maps for each sampling medium on a single page, along with a generalized explanation. Symbol categories were based on natural groupings in the data using the natural breaks method; values below detection were set to half the detection limit, or an arbitrary value in the case of the ground-water data. The data tables for each medium are available as Excel tables and as an ESRI geodatabase. Selected element maps and general landscape information are also presented as a poster to give an overview of the geochemical landscape and a basis for its interpretation in relation to geology. Together, the tables and database components provide a regional reference for environmental management and exploration that will typically rely on more detailed sampling. Construction of the atlas was funded by the Minnesota Minerals Coordinating Committee. The maps, poster, and data are available from the Minnesota Geological Survey web site, and additional information may be obtained from the MPCA and the USGS.
Subject: MGS Open File Report OFR-09-02 - 2009
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Keywords: MGS; Geochemistry
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