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Science 1 February 1985:
Vol. 227. no. 4686, pp. 519 - 522
DOI: 10.1126/science.227.4686.519
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Two-Million-Year Record of Deuterium Depletion in Great Basin Ground Waters

ISAAC J. WINOGRAD 1, BARNEY J. SZABO 2, TYLER B. COPLEN 1, ALAN C. RIGGS 3, and PETER T. KOLESAR 4

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092
2 Branch of Isotope Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
3 Zoology Department, University of Washington, Seattle 98105
4 Department of Geology, Utah State University, Logan 84322

Fluid inclusions in uranium series-dated calcitic veins from the southern Great Basin record a reduction of 40 per mil in the deuterium content of ground-water recharge during the Pleistocene. This variation is tentatively attributed to major uplift of the Sierra Nevada Range and the Transverse Ranges during this epoch with attendant increasing orographic depletion of deuterium from inland-bound Pacific storms.

Submitted on August 10, 1984
Accepted on October 11, 1984


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