Session: General Soil Mineralogy: II

General Soil Mineralogy: II

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 W. Stewart, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Justin D. Hynicka, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Stephanie A. Ewing, U.S. Geological Survey; Ronald Amundson, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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10:15 AM

Use of Anthropogenic Radioisotopes to Estimate Rates of Soil Redistribution by Wind.
R. Scott Van Pelt, USDA-ARS; Michael E. Ketterer, Northern Arizona Univ.; Jerry Ritchie, USDA-ARS

Audio File Recorded presentation

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.

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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

Audio File Recorded presentation

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 L. 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

Audio File Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

Adjourn

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