Abstract

Sediments from Soap Lake, an alkaline‐saline lake on the arid Columbia Plateau, demonstrate postdepositional changes in response to a measured osmotic potential gradient through sediment. The primary mechanism for osmotic readjustment is redistribution water and dissolved ions through the sediment, altering sediment water content and pore water salinity. This redistribution provides a mechanism for mobilizing ions from exchange sites and from minerals to form pore waters of altered composition.

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