References

Dust Trap Methods

Reheis, M. C., & Kihl, R. (1995). Dust deposition in southern Nevada and California, 1984–1989: Relations to climate, source area, and source lithology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 100(D5), 8893-8918.

Reheis, M. C., Budahn, J. R., & Lamothe, P. J. (2002). Geochemical evidence for diversity of dust sources in the southwestern United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66(9), 1569-1587.

Other places that use this method:

Measuring dust to determine the amount that contributes as nutrients to Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems.

Paleolimnology, Paleodust, Paleoenvironment at Columbine Lake, Colorado

Arcusa, S. H., McKay, N. P., Wiman, C., Patterson, S., Munoz, S. E., & Aquino-López, M. A. (2022). A Bayesian approach to integrating radiometric dating and varve measurements in intermittently indistinct sediment. Geochronology, 4(1), 409-433.

Arcusa, S. H., McKay, N. P., Routson, C. C., & Munoz, S. E. (2020). Dust-drought interactions over the last 15,000 years: A network of lake sediment records from the San Juan Mountains, Colorado. The Holocene, 30(4), 559-574.

Paleolimnology, Paleodust, Paleoenvironment at other lakes in the area

Routson, C. C., Arcusa, S. H., McKay, N. P., & Overpeck, J. T. (2019). A 4,500‐year‐long record of southern Rocky Mountain dust deposition. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(14), 8281-8288.

Routson, C. C., Overpeck, J. T., Woodhouse, C. A., & Kenney, W. F. (2016). Three millennia of southwestern North American dustiness and future implications. PloS one, 11(2), e0149573.

Local History (U.S. Southwest) of Livestock

Belnap, J., Reynolds, R. L., Reheis, M. C., Phillips, S. L., Urban, F. E., & Goldstein, H. L. (2009).  Sediment losses and gains across a gradient of livestock grazing and plant invasion in a cool, semi-arid grassland, Colorado Plateau, USA. Aeolian Research, 1(1-2), 27-43.

Lockwood, F. C. (1928). Father Eusebio Francisco Kino.

Dunmire, W. W. (2013). New Mexico's Spanish livestock heritage: four centuries of animals, land, and people. UNM Press.

Officer, J. E. (1993). Kino and agriculture in the Pimeria Alta. The Journal of Arizona History, 34(3), 287-306.

Richter, B. D., Bartak, D., Caldwell, P., Davis, K. F., Debaere, P., Hoekstra, A. Y., ... & Troy, T. J. (2020). Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production. Nature Sustainability, 3(4), 319-328.

Swette, B., & Lambin, E. F. (2021). Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West. Global environmental change, 66, 102220.

Dust impacts on downwind communities

Uranium-laced dust impacts downwind communities, from the Grand Canyon Trust

Radioactive contamination of water and air resources

Begay, J., Sanchez, B., Wheeler, A., Baldwin Jr, F., Lucas, S., Herbert, G., ... & Campen, M. J. (2021). Assessment of particulate matter toxicity and physicochemistry at the Claim 28 uranium mine site in Blue Gap, AZ. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 84(1), 31-48.

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