Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans

10.5880/fidgeo.2020.037 Lasser, Jana Jana Lasser 0000-0002-4274-4580 Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Austria Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen. Germany Nield, Jo M. Jo M. Nield 0000-0002-2657-0525 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Karius, Volker Volker Karius 0000-0002-6396-0792 University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Goehring, Lucas Lucas Goehring 0000-0002-3858-7295 Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans GFZ Data Services 2020 Badwater Basin Death Valley Owens Lake California density grain size humidity ICPOES laser particle sizer minerals pattern photo pictures pore water salinity salt salt concentration salt crust salt desert salt polygon salt ridge salt species surface temperature terrestrial laser scanner time series TLS video XRD compound material > sedimentary material EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > DESERTS EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOCHEMISTRY Lasser, Jana Jana Lasser 0000-0002-4274-4580 Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Austria Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen. Germany Lasser, Jana Jana Lasser 0000-0002-4274-4580 Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Austria Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen. Germany Lasser, Jana Jana Lasser 0000-0002-4274-4580 Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Austria Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen. Germany Nield, Jo M. Jo M. Nield 0000-0002-2657-0525 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Nield, Jo M. Jo M. Nield 0000-0002-2657-0525 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Goehring, Lucas Lucas Goehring 0000-0002-3858-7295 Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Lasser, Jana Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Medical University Vienna, Austria Collection 10.1594/PANGAEA.910996 10.1594/PANGAEA.922264 10.1594/PANGAEA.911054 10.1594/PANGAEA.911239 10.1594/PANGAEA.911233 10.1594/PANGAEA.922231 10.5194/essd-2020-86 1.0 CC BY 4.0 This data collection bundles six datasets about the surface, subsurface and environmental conditions of saltpans that express polygonal patterns in their surface salt crust that are fully described in Lasser et al., 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-86). Information stems from 5 field sites at Badwater Basin and 21 field sites at Owens Lake – both in central California, US. All data was recorded during two field campaigns, from between November and December, 2016, and in January 2018.

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(2) Lasser, J., Goehring, L. (2020b): Subsurface salt concentration profiles and pore water density measurements from Owens Lake, central California, measured in 2018 (Version 2). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922264

(3) Lasser, J., Goehring, L., Nield, J. M. (2020). Images and Videos from Owens Lake and Badwater Basin in central California, taken in 2016 and 2018 [Data set]. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911054

(4) Lasser, J., Karius, V. (2020). Chemical characterization of salt samples from Owens Lake and Badwater Basin, central California, collected in 2016 and 2018. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911239

(5) Nield, J. M., Lasser, J., Goehring, L. (2020). TLS surface scans from Owens Lake and Badwater Basin, central California, measured in 2016 and 2018 [Data set]. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911233

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Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California -116.784 -116.779 36.2275 36.2279 Owens Lake, California -117.98 -117.909 36.3467 36.5649 Electronics Research Laboratory, Volkswagen of America http://doi.org/10.13039/100006523 Fellowship Freies Wissen Wikimedia Foundation http://doi.org/10.13039/100011049 Fellowship Freies Wissen