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Book SynopsisExplores soil as a nexus for water, chemicals, and biologically coupled nutrient cycling Soil is a narrow but critically important zone on Earth's surface. It is the interface for water and carbon recycling from above and part of the cycling of sediment and rock from below. Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation places chemical weathering and soil formation in its geological, climatological, biological and hydrological perspective. Volume highlights include: The evolution of soils over 3.25 billion yearsBasic processes contributing to soil formationHow chemical weathering and soil formation relate to water and energy fluxesThe role of pedogenesis in geomorphologyRelationships between climate soils and biotaSoils, aeolian deposits, and crusts as geologic dating toolsImpacts of land-use change on soils The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide
Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
Preface xi
Part I: Soil Definition 1
1. Soil as a System: A History
Richard J. Huggett 3
Part II: Soil History 21
2. Soils, Chemical Weathering, and Climate Change in Earth History
Steven G. Driese, Lee C. Nordt, and Gary E. Stinchcomb 23
Part III: Soil Formation Processes 67
3. Soil Formation, Vegetation Growth, and Water Balance: A Theory for Budyko
Allen Hunt 69
4. Earthworms, Plants, and Soils
Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Géraldine Bullinger, Andreas Schomburg, Pascal Turberg, Philip Brunner, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, and Claire Guenat 81
5. Tephra for the Trees? Geochemical Constraints on Weathering and Tephra Inputs to Soils on New Zealand’s North Island
Claire E. Lukens and Kevin P. Norton 105
6. The Origin and Formation of Clay Minerals in Alpine Soils
Markus Egli and Aldo Mirabella 121
Part IV: Application of Chemical Weathering/Soil Formation in Other Disciplines 139
7. Weathering Rinds as Tools for Constraining Reaction Kinetics and Duration of Weathering at the Clast-Scale
Peter B. Sak 141
8. Unraveling Loess Records of Climate Change from the Chinese Loess Plateau Using Process-Based Models
Peter A. Finke, Keerthika Nirmani Ranathunga Arachchige, Ann Verdoodt, Yanyan Yu, and Qiuzhen Yin 163
9. Relations Between Soil Development and Landslides
Arnaud J.A.M. Temme 177
10A. Soils in Agricultural Engineering: Effect of Land-Use Management Systems on Mechanical Soil Processes
Rainer F. Horn 187
10B. Soil Strength and Carbon Sequestration
Rattan Lal 201
Part V: Integrated Studies of Soils 205
11. Chemical Weathering in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
W. Berry Lyons, Deborah L. Leslie, and Michael N. Gooseff 207
12. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes Within Southeastern Piedmont Critical Zones
Todd C. Rasmussen, Maryam Foroughi, and Daniel Markewitz 217
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 231
14. Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Pedogenesis Through Chemical Weathering, Hydrologic Fluxes, and Bioturbation
Allen Hunt, Markus Egli, and Boris Faybishenko 253
Index 270
