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Chemical Modeling of Acid WatersYellowstone National Park Our project is investigating the redox chemistry of sulfur and arsenic in the hydrothermal systems of Yellowstone National Park to gain insight into the deep flow system, to determine the rates and mechanisms of oxidation upon exposure of these elements to air, and to collaborate with researchers who are investigating the pathways of arsenic to plants and animals in the Park. Major elements, other trace elements, and stable isotopes are being determined to provide more complete chemical analyses on Yellowstone waters than have been reported previously and to refine conceptual models of the Yellowstone hydrothermal system.
Yellowstone Publications McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., Susong, D.D., Ball, J.W., and Holloway, J.M., 2010, Source and fate of inorganic solutes in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. I. Low-flow discharge and major solute chemistry: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 193, no. 3-4, p. 189-202. McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., Susong, D.D., Ball, J.W., and Taylor, H.E., 2010, Source and fate of inorganic solutes in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. II. Trace element chemistryJournal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v.196, no. 3-4, p. 139-155. Boyd, E.S., King, S., Tomberlin, J.K., Nordstrom, D.K., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Barkay, T., and Geesey, G.G., 2009, Methylmercury enters an aquatic food web through acidophilic microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: Environmental Microbiology, v. 11, no. 4, p. 950-959. Nordstrom, D.K., McCleskey, R.B., and Ball, J.W., 2009, Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National Park: IV Acid-sulfate waters: Applied Geochemistry, v. 24, no. 2, p. 191-207. Sherman, L.S., Blum, J.D., Nordstrom, D.K., McCleskey, R.B., Barkay, T., and Vetriani, C., 2009, Mercury isotopic composition of hydrothermal systems in the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field and Guaymas Basin sea-floor rift: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 279, no. 1-2, p. 86-96. Ball, J.W., McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., and Holloway, J.M., 2007, Water-chemistry data for selected springs, geysers, and streams in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2003-2005: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1339, 183 p. Planer-Friedrich, B., London, J., McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., and Wallschlager, D., 2007, Thioarsenates in geothermal waters of Yellowstone National Park - Determination, preservation, and geochemical importance: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41, p. 5,245-5,251. King, S.A., Behnke, S., Slack, K., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Nordstrom, D.K. Burr, M.D., and Striegl, R.G., 2006, Mercury in water and biomass of microbial communities in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, USA: Applied Geochemistry, v. 21, no. 11, p. 1868-1879. Planer-Friedrich, B., Lehr, C., Matschullat, J., Merkel, B.J., Nordstrom, D.K., and Sandstrom, M.W., 2006, Speciation of volatile arsenic at geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 70, p. 2,480-2,491. McCleskey, R.B., Ball, J.W., Nordstrom, D.K., Holloway, J.M., and Taylor, H.E.., 2004, Water-Chemistry Data for Selected Hot Springs, Geysers, and Streams in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2001-2002. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1316. 94 p. Nordstrom, D.K., Ball, J.W., and McCleskey, R.B., 2004, Oxidation reactions for reduced Fe, As, and S in thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park: biotic or abiotic, in Wanty, R.B., and Seal, R.R., II, eds., Water-Rock Interaction, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Water - Rock Interaction, Saratoga Springs, New York, July 2004: New York, A.A. Balkema, p. 59-62. Holloway, J.M., Smith, R.L., and Nordstrom, D.K., Nitrogen transformations in hot spring runoff, Yellowstone National Park, USA, in Wanty, R.B., and Seal, R.R., II, eds., Water-Rock Interaction, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Water - Rock Interaction, Saratoga Springs, New York, July 2004: New York, A.A. Balkema, p. 145-148. Ball, J.W., McCleskey, R.B., Nordstrom, D.K., Holloway, J.M., and Verplanck, P.L., 2002, Water-Chemistry Data for Selected Springs, Geysers, and Streams in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1999-2000. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-382. 112 p. Ball, J. B., Nordstrom, D. K., McCleskey, R. B., Schoonen, M. A., Xu, Y., 2001, Water-chemistry and on-site sulfur-speciation data for selected springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1996-1998. U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-49. Xu, Y., Schoonen, M.A.A., Nordstrom, D.K., Cunningham, K.M., and Ball, J.W., 2000, Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. II. Formation and decomposition of thiosulfate and polythionate in Cinder Pool: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 97, p. 407-423. (on-line abstract)
Xu, Y., Schoonen, M. A. A., Nordstrom, D. K., Cunningham, K. M., and Ball, J.
W., 1998, Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National
Park: Park: I. The origin of thiosulfate in hot spring waters: Geochem.
Cosmochem. Acta 62, p. 3729-3743. (on-line
abstract) Nordstrom, D.K., Cunningham, K.M., Ball, J.W., Xu, Y., and Schoonen, M.A.A., 1998, Sulfur redox chemistry and the origin of thiosulfate in hydrothermal waters of Yellowstone National Park, in Arehart, G. B., and Hulston, J. R., eds, Proceedings 9th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction (WRI-9): Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema,, p. 641-644. |
