Combining sediment fingerprinting with age-dating sediment using fallout radionuclides for an agricultural stream, Walnut Creek, Iowa, USA

Gellis, Allen C.; Fuller, Christopher C.; Metre, Peter C. Van; Filstrup, Christopher T.; Tomer, Mark D.; Cole, Kevin J.; Sabitov, Timur Y.

doi:10.1007/s11368-018-2168-z

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“…Both Matisoff et al (2005) and Gellis et al (2016) acknowledged that a shortcoming of their approach was that they could not determine whether the channel-derived sediment originated from streambanks or from older surface-derived sediment that had been in channel storage for several decades. In a follow-up study, Gellis et al (2019) apportioned the sources of sediment in the agricultural Walnut Creek watershed, IA, USA, into channel banks and surface-derived sediment (pasture, prairie, cropland and unpaved roads) using sediment fingerprinting (elemental analysis) and fallout radionuclides ( 210 Pb ex and 7 Be) to determine the age of the surfacederived portion of sediment (Fig. 7).…”

Section: The Age and Residence Time Of Fine-grained Sedimentmentioning

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Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

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Purpose This review of sediment source fingerprinting assesses the current state-of-the-art, remaining challenges and emerging themes. It combines inputs from international scientists either with track records in the approach or with expertise relevant to progressing the science. Methods Web of Science and Google Scholar were used to review published papers spanning the period 2013–2019, inclusive, to confirm publication trends in quantities of papers by study area country and the types of tracers used. The most recent (2018–2019, inclusive) papers were also benchmarked using a methodological decision-tree published in 2017. Scope Areas requiring further research and international consensus on methodological detail are reviewed, and these comprise spatial variability in tracers and corresponding sampling implications for end-members, temporal variability in tracers and sampling implications for end-members and target sediment, tracer conservation and knowledge-based pre-selection, the physico-chemical basis for source discrimination and dissemination of fingerprinting results to stakeholders. Emerging themes are also discussed: novel tracers, concentration-dependence for biomarkers, combining sediment fingerprinting and age-dating, applications to sediment-bound pollutants, incorporation of supportive spatial information to augment discrimination and modelling, aeolian sediment source fingerprinting, integration with process-based models and development of open-access software tools for data processing. Conclusions The popularity of sediment source fingerprinting continues on an upward trend globally, but with this growth comes issues surrounding lack of standardisation and procedural diversity. Nonetheless, the last 2 years have also evidenced growing uptake of critical requirements for robust applications and this review is intended to signpost investigators, both old and new, towards these benchmarks and remaining research challenges for, and emerging options for different applications of, the fingerprinting approach.

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Section: The Age and Residence Time Of Fine-grained Sedimentmentioning

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Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

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“…This means that the luminescence of sediment grains at any given point in space or time will reflect the rates and mechanism of the sediment transport process (Figures and ) and the ambient sediment environment. To our knowledge, no other sediment tracer has this specific sensitivity to storage time and sunlight exposure, although some tracers such as beryllium‐7 ( 7 Be) and excess lead‐210 ( 210 Pb ex ) can be affected by burial (Gellis et al, ; Koiter et al, ). Thus, luminescence has unique potential to uncover new information on earth surface systems, possibly recording rates and mechanisms of sediment transport.…”

Section: Luminescence and Its Characteristics In Geomorphic Environmentsmentioning

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“…To our knowledge, no other sediment tracer has this specific sensitivity to storage time and sunlight exposure, although some tracers such as beryllium-7 ( 7 Be) and excess lead-210 ( 210 Pb ex ) can be affected by burial (Gellis et al, 2018;Koiter et al, 2013). Thus, luminescence has unique potential to uncover new information on earth surface systems, possibly recording rates and mechanisms of sediment transport.…”

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Luminescence as a Sediment Tracer and Provenance Tool

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Luminescence holds unique potential as a sediment tracer and provenance method. The tracer application of luminescence has key advantages including ease of measurement, relatively low cost, and applicability to geologically ubiquitous quartz and feldspar sand and silt. These advantages can help answer fundamental questions about geomorphology, sediment transport, sediment production, and the tectonic/climatic controls on source‐to‐sink sedimentary systems. There is a notable body of research on luminescence as a sediment tracer. These tracer methods range from identifying source locations based on unique luminescence characteristics, to observing changes in luminescence characteristics with transport, to using residual luminescence to infer rates of transport. Previous applications of luminescence include provenance and quantification of fluvial transport rate, tracing of coastal longshore drift, estimations of mixing rates in soil or sediment, and provenance of wind‐blown deposits. The few studies that compare luminescence methods with nonluminescence tracer methods show good agreement. However, more work is needed to test the application of luminescence tracers in sediments. Future research directions should focus on comparing luminescence‐based with nonluminescence tracer methods. Furthermore, research is needed on the effects of specific geomorphic processes on luminescence characteristics and residual doses. While there is significant potential for future research, luminescence is already a useful sediment tracer and provenance tool applicable to a wide range of geomorphic environments.

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“…Overall, Gateuille et al (2019) demonstrated that the sediment source fingerprinting technique can be utilized to investigate how the cumulative effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances affect sediment source dynamics in a large river basin over short (i.e., annual) and longer (i.e., decadal) temporal scales. Gellis et al (2019) apportion sediment using elemental analysis and the sediment fingerprinting approach and age-date sediment with fallout radionuclides in the agricultural Walnut Creek Basin (Iowa, USA). In particular, the age-dating of sediment provides an important temporal context for understanding sediment source dynamics.…”

Section: Sediment Source Fingerprinting In the Critical Zonementioning

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“…To further advance our understanding of the critical zone, we believe it is important for sediment source fingerprinting research to capitalize on combining multiple sediment source fingerprints to explicitly investigate Earth system science processes. In particular, the multi-fingerprint research in this special issue that simultaneously incorporates temporal fingerprints (e.g., 7 Be, 210 Pb xs ) with erosion process and spatial fingerprints (Gateuille et al 2019;Gellis et al 2019) outlines a potentially effective technique to investigate the response of critical zone processes to anthropogenic activities over multiple temporal scales. For example, short-term fingerprints such as 7 Be may provide information on erosion processes occurring on intra-annual temporal scales or even the individual rainfall event scale.…”

Section: Perspectives For Sediment Source Fingerprinting In the Critimentioning

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Preface—evaluating the response of critical zone processes to human impacts with sediment source fingerprinting

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Combining sediment fingerprinting with age-dating sediment using fallout radionuclides for an agricultural stream, Walnut Creek, Iowa, USA

Cited by 20 publications

References 105 publications

Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

Luminescence as a Sediment Tracer and Provenance Tool

Preface—evaluating the response of critical zone processes to human impacts with sediment source fingerprinting

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