Walter Dean, USGS, Denver, CO The Significance of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions to the Accumulation of Iron and Manganese in the Sediments of Lakes in North-Central Minnesota: A Geological Perspective Walter Dean, USGS, Denver, CO 1
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conclusions Most of the Fe and Mn in the sediments of at least three, and probably most of the lakes in the Shingobee Rivers Headwaters Area is derived from endogenic precipitation of X-ray amorphous oxyhydroxides during fall and spring overturn; little is derived from detrital clastic material. The amounts of Fe and Mn oxyhydroxides that ultimately are buried in the lake sediments is a balance between the rate at which they are produced during fall and spring overturn and the rate at which they are dissolved in the sediments during summer stratification. A deep till aquifer is the source of most of the dissolved Fe and Mn in ground and surface waters.