335 Integration of Soils and Geomorphology in Deserts: A Tribute to the 50 Years of Soil Research of Dan Yaalon

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Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 372DE

Presiding:
Rivka Amit , Eric McDonald and Yehouda Enzel
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
The Desert Project: An Analysis of Aridland Soil-Geomorphic Processes
H. Curtis Monger, New Mexico State Univ.; Leland H. Gile; John Hawley; Robert B. Grossman, Natural Resources Conservation Service
8:25 AM
Relating Mass and Energy Fluxes to Arid Soil Development
Michael Young, Desert Res. Inst.; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Todd Caldwell, Desert Research Institute
8:45 AM
Pedogenesis In Response to Quaternary-Scale Aridification of the Negev Desert, Israel
Rivka Amit, Geol Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ori Simhai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ari Matmon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Itai Haviv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Naomi Porat, Geol Survey of Israel; Lucilla Benedetti; Robert Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:00 AM
Sand Dunes Are a Major Proximal Coarse Dust Source for Late Pleistocene Desert Margin Loess, the Negev Desert, Israel
Onn Crouvi, Geol Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University; Rivka Amit, Geol Survey of Israel
9:15 AM
Constraining Ages of Desert Alluvial Surfaces According to Their Geomorphic Roughness as Measured from Space
Amit Mushkin, Geological Survey of Israel; Alan Gillespie, Univ of Washington; Rivka Amit, Geological Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9:30 AM
Accretionary Pavement Development and Landscape Stability on the Eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt
Katherine A. Adelsberger, Knox College; Jennifer R. Smith, Washington University
10:00 AM
Break
10:15 AM
New Field Data Supporting the Role of Insolation in Physical Weathering
Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; D. Griffing, Hartwick College; Leslie McFadden, University of New Mexico; John A. Diemer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Daigneault, Hartwick College; Bradley Gordon Johnson, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Melissa Karlin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Vijaya Gagrani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Yong Hong Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; L. Scuderi, Univ of New Mexico
10:30 AM
Numerical Simulations of Salt Accumulation In a Hyper-Arid Soil Chronosequence In the Sonoran Desert
Todd Caldwell, Desert Research Institute; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Michael Young, Desert Research Institute; Steven N. Bacon, Desert Research Institute; Giles M. Marion, Desert Research Institute
10:45 AM
Soil Evolution during the Past 30,000 Years In the Black Rock Desert, Utah, SW USA
Jan-Uwe Schmidt, Dresden University of Technology; Arno Kleber, Dresden University of Technology; Michael Dietze, Dresden University of Technology
11:15 AM
Boundary Conditions and Climate: Dual Controls on Hillslope Evolution in the Atacama Desert
Justine Owen, University of California, Berkeley; Ronald Amundson, U.C. Berkeley; William Dietrich, Univ of California, Berkeley; Kuni Nishiizumi, UC Berkeley
11:30 AM
Pedogenic Processes and Paleoclimatic Significance of Sulfate Soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile
Jason A. Rech, Miami Univ.; Brenda J. Buck, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas
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