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DOI10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.012
A cross-scale study of feldspar transformation in the Santa Catalina Mountain Critical Zone Observatory
Lybrand, Rebecca A.; Rasmussen, Craig
通讯作者Lybrand, Rebecca A.
会议名称Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface (GES) Meeting
会议日期AUG 18-23, 2014
会议地点Paris, FRANCE
英文摘要

The critical zone evolves from coupled biological, physical, and geochemical processes that we quantify here across varying climatic and topographic conditions. The specific objective of this work was to examine how climate, landscape position, and vegetation drive feldspar weathering across the Santa Catalina Mountain Critical Zone Observatory, which exhibits considerable range in temperature (24 to 10 degrees C), precipitation (25 to 85 cm), and vegetation community composition (desert scrub -> mixed conifer). Granitic soils and parent rock were characterized using a profile development index, quantitative x-ray diffraction, and electron microprobe analyses. Profile development indices increased linearly with increasing MAP/PET ratios (r(2) = 0.48), with higher degrees of soil development in convergent footslope positions. Bulk soils from the desert scrub sites were enriched in total feldspar relative to quartz in both landscape positions, ranging from +2 to +24% compared to the mixed conifer soils, which exhibited maximum total feldspar depletions of -13% in the convergent soils and -3% in the divergent sites. Microscale Na depletions increased significantly from unaltered to altered feldspar grain sections, with more tightly constrained Na losses in the mixed conifer grains compared to those from the desert scrub environment. Greater soil development and feldspar transformation in the conifer soils documented interactive climate and vegetation controls on mineral weathering in bulk soils and at the microscale. Furthermore, the larger profile development indices in the convergent landscapes demonstrated the importance of studying hillslope-scale soil development along environmental gradients, where localized increases in mineral transformation likely results from greater moisture availability and organic inputs in water-gathering landscape positions. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.


英文关键词critical zone feldspar microscale weathering profile development index environmental gradient climate landscape position
来源出版物GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE GES-10
ISSN1878-5220
出版年2014
卷号10
页码63-68
EISBN*****************
出版者ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
类型Proceedings Paper
语种英语
国家USA
收录类别CPCI-S
WOS记录号WOS:000345407200011
WOS关键词SOIL DEVELOPMENT ; WEATHERING RATES ; DISSOLUTION ; CATENAS ; CHRONOSEQUENCE ; VEGETATION ; EVOLUTION ; TRANSECT ; ARIZONA ; CLIMATE
WOS类目Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Geology
资源类型会议论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/303304
作者单位Univ Arizona, Dept Soil Water & Environm Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
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Lybrand, Rebecca A.,Rasmussen, Craig. A cross-scale study of feldspar transformation in the Santa Catalina Mountain Critical Zone Observatory[C]:ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV,2014:63-68.
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