240 General Soil Mineralogy: II

Oral Session
S09 Soil Mineralogy
General submission to the division of interest
Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 9:55 AM-11:45 AM
Convention Center, Room 328, Third Floor

Presiding:
Brad Lee
9:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM
Radiogenic Isotope Provenance of Dry Deposition in Hyperarid Soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Brian Stewart, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Justin D. Hynicka, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Stephanie A. Ewing, U.S. Geological Survey; Ronald Amundson, Univ. of California, Berkeley
10:15 AM
Use of Anthropogenic Radioisotopes to Estimate Rates of Soil Redistribution by Wind.
Robert Van Pelt, USDA-ARS; Michael E. Ketterer, Northern Arizona Univ.; Jerry Ritchie, USDA-ARS
10:30 AM
Modern Soil Analogs of Carbonate Chemistry and Genesis in Paleosols.
Donald McGahan, Tarleton State Univ. & AgriLIFE Res. A&M System; Neil J. Tabor, Southern Methodist Univ.
10:45 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Pedogenesis and Carbon Fluxes Across a Lithosequence of Forest Soils.
Katherine Heckman, Univ. of Arizona; Craig Rasmussen, Univ. of Arizona
11:15 AM
Structural Study of Poorly Crystalline Layered Manganese Oxides Using the Atomic Pair Distribution Function Technique.
Mengqiang Zhu, Univ. of Delaware; Matthew Ginder-Vogel, Univ. of Delaware; Brandon Lafferty, Univ. of Delaware; Gautier Landrot, Univ. of Delaware; Donald Sparks, Univ. of Delaware
11:30 AM
Nonexchangeable Potassium, Clay Mineralogy and Specific Surface Area Interactions in Kazova Soils.
Hikmet Gunal, Gaziosmanpasa Univ., Faculty of Agriculture; Fevzi Akbas, Gaziosmanpasa Univ., Faculty of Agriculture; Nurullah Acir, Gaziosmanpasa Univ., Faculty of Agriculture
11:45 AM
Adjourn