Radiometric dating of sediment cores from three alpine lakes in Utah, United States, with stable isotope data
Citation
Stuart, Yoel; Walsh, Matthew (2023), Radiometric dating of sediment cores from three alpine lakes in Utah, United States, with stable isotope data, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3j9tx
Abstract
We collected sediment cores from three alpine lakes in Utah, United States, to isolate dormant Daphnia eggs for a resurrection ecology experiment. Our question was whether radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s and 1960s caused increased mutation rates and population evolution in Daphnia. That work is ongoing. Here, we publish radioisotope dating profiles from our sediment cores.
Methods
Please see the associated manuscript at bioRxiv for details.
Usage notes
Please see the associated manuscript at bioRxiv for details as well as the README uploaded with the data. Spreadsheet software and R will be needed to open the data files.
Funding
National Science Foundation, Award: 2028775