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Hydrogeology, chemical weathering, and soil formation
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
"Soil formation through biogeochemical weathering is a fundamental process in the establishment of vegetation on continents as well as in the global carbon and nitrogen cycles, with further relevance to climate change and mass extinctions. The fate of water arriving at the terrestrial surface is concluded at shallow depths, mostly within the top few meters, where plants and the sun extract water through the processes of evapo-transpiration, and the remainder runs off or replenishes groundwater. Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering and Soil Formation focuses on a vast range of time and spatial scales involved in soil processes, as well as its complexity and many-faceted nature"--
Part 1. Soil Definition. 1. Soil as a system: A history / Richard Huggett -- Part 2. Soil History. 2. Soils, chemical weathering, and climate change in Earth history / Steven G. Driese, Lee C. Nordt, and Gary E. Stinchcomb -- Part 3. Soil Formation Processes. 3. Soils, vegetation growth and water balance: A theory for Budyko / Allen Hunt -- 4. Earthworms, plants, and soils / Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Géraldine Bullinger, Andreas Schomburg, Pascal Turberg, Philip Brunner, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, and Claire Guenat -- 5. Tephra for the trees: Geochemical constraints on weathering and tephra inputs to soils / Claire E. Lukens and Kevin P. Norton -- 6. The origin and formation of clay minerals in Alpine soils / Markus Egli and Aldo Mirabella -- Part 4. Application of chemical weathering/soil formation in other disciplines. 7. Weathering Rinds as Tools for Constraining Reaction Kinetics and Duration of Weathering at the Clast-scale / Peter B. Sak -- 8. Unraveling loess records of climate change from the Chinese loess plateau using process based models / Peter A. Finke, K. N. Arachchige Ranathunga, Ann Verdoot, Yanyan Yu, and Qiuzhen Qin -- 9. Relations between soil development and landslides / Arnaud J.A.M. Temme -- 10. Soils in agricultural engineering / Rainer F. Horn and Rattan Lal -- Part 5. Integrated studies of soils. 11. Chemical weathering in the McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica / W. Berry Lyons, Deborah L. Leslie, and Michael N. Gooseff -- 12. Carbon and nutrient fluxes within southeastern Piedmont critical zones / Todd C. Rasmussen, Maryam Foroughi, and Daniel Markewitz -- 13. Is this steady-state? Weathering and critical zone architecture in Gordon Gulch, Colorado Front Range / Suzanne P. Anderson, Patrick J. Kelly, Noah Hoffman, Katherine Barnhart, Kevin Befus, and William Ouimet -- 14. Summary, challenges, and ways forward / Allen Hunt, Markus Egli, and Boris Faybishenko.
Allen Hunt, Markus Egli, Boris Faybishenko, editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.