NDLI: Quantifying sources of suspended sediment in three size fractions

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Author	Haddadchi, Arman Olley, Jon Pietsch, Timothy
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Identifying of the sources, stores and pathways of sediments in a catchment is essential to accurately target management actions designed to reduce sediment delivery to receiving waters. Fingerprinting the source of sediment using geochemical properties has increasingly been accepted as an accurate approach for quantifying the contribution of different sources to river sediment discharge. In this study, we seek to examine the effect of particle size and location of the sources on their contribution to suspended sediments.Geochemical tracers (n = 41) were employed to calculate proportional contributions of sediment to Emu Creek, a predominantly pastoral catchment (911 km$^{2}$) in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The study focused on two high flow events (10- and 6-year return periods) and some lower flow events which occurred during the 18 months from October 2011 to March 2013. Source contributions were determined at eight spatially distributed sites in major tributaries and along the main channel of Emu Creek. Source determination at the in-stream sites was done using end member samples (based on the underlying rock type) collected upstream of the site of interest, thus indicating how different sources dominate at different locations downstream. To examine whether different size fractions shared similar provenances, three size fractions of both source and suspended samples including fine silt and clay (<10 μm), silt (10–63 μm) and fine sand (63–212 μm) were analysed.The source apportionment results using the distribution mixing model indicate that particle size and location of sources within a catchment are major factors that affect the measured contribution of sources to suspended sediments. The closer a suspended sediment sampling site is to a potential source, the more likely it is that source of sediment will dominate the material being sampled.For all size fractions, proximal sources of sediment make a higher contribution to suspended sediments than distal sources. This indicates that management actions should be focused on the more proximal sources to the point of interest/impact. Although proximal soil sources were major contributor of sediments in all three size fractions, the percentage of contribution greatly vary in different size fractions, emphasising the need to trace the size fraction which is causing the downstream problems.
Starting Page	2086
Ending Page	2100
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14390108
Journal	Journal of Soils and Sediments
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	10
e-ISSN	16147480
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-07-18
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Geochemical tracers Sediment fingerprinting Size fraction Suspended sediment South-east Queensland Soil Science & Conservation Environment Environmental Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Stratigraphy Earth-Surface Processes

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