Explores 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 years
• Basic processes contributing to soil formation
• How chemical weathering and soil formation relate to water and energy fluxes
• The role of pedogenesis in geomorphology
• Relationships between climate soils and biota
• Soils, aeolian deposits, and crusts as geologic dating tools

• Impacts of land-use change on soils

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  Autorentext

  Allen Hunt, Wright University, USA.

  Markus Egli, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

  Boris Faybishenko, Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

  Inhalt

  List 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