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Remediation Of Coastal Acid Sulfate Soils By Tidal Inundation: Effectiveness And Geochemical Implications, Scott Johnston, Annabelle Keene, Richard Bush, Edward Burton, Leigh Sullivan
Remediation Of Coastal Acid Sulfate Soils By Tidal Inundation: Effectiveness And Geochemical Implications, Scott Johnston, Annabelle Keene, Richard Bush, Edward Burton, Leigh Sullivan
Associate Professor Edward D Burton
The effects of restoring marine tidal inundation to a severely degraded acid sulfate soil landscape were investigated. Five years of regular tidal inundation led to substantial improvements in a range of key parameters used to assess soil and water quality. The pH of estuarine creeks improved dramatically following reintroduction of tidal inundation. Time series water quality and climatic data indicate a substantial decrease in the magnitude of creek acidification per given quantity of antecedent rainfall. The soil pH also increased by 2–3 units and titratable actual acidity (TAA) decreased by ~40–50 μmol H+ g-1 within former sulfuric horizons. Tidal inundation …
Fe And S K-Edge Xas Determination Of Iron-Sulfur Species Present In A Range Of Acid Sulfate Soils: Effects Of Particle Size And Concentration On Quantitative Xanes Determinations, Kate Morgan, Edward Burton, Perran Cook, Mark Raven, Robert Fitzpatrick, Richard Bush, Leigh Sullivan, Rosalie Hocking
Fe And S K-Edge Xas Determination Of Iron-Sulfur Species Present In A Range Of Acid Sulfate Soils: Effects Of Particle Size And Concentration On Quantitative Xanes Determinations, Kate Morgan, Edward Burton, Perran Cook, Mark Raven, Robert Fitzpatrick, Richard Bush, Leigh Sullivan, Rosalie Hocking
Associate Professor Edward D Burton
Acid sulfate soils (ASS) are soils and soft sediments in which sulfuric acid may be produced from iron sulfides or have been produced leaving iron oxyhydroxysulfates in amounts that have a long lasting effect on soil characteristics. If soil material is exposed to rotting vegetation or other reducing material, the Fe-oxyhydroxysulfates can be bacterially reduced to sulfides including disulfides (pyrite and marcasite), and Monosulfidic Black Ooze (MBO) a poorly characterised material known to be a mixture of iron sulfides (especially mackinawite) and organic matter. The chemistry of these environments is strongly affected by Fe and S cycling processes and herein …
A Case History Of The Science And Management Collaboration In Understanding Hypoxia Events In Long Bay, South Carolina, Usa., Denise Sanger, Debra Hernandez, Susan Libes, George Voulgaris, Braxton Davis, Erik Smith, Rebecca Shufford, Dwayne Porter, Eric Koepfler, Joseph Bennet
A Case History Of The Science And Management Collaboration In Understanding Hypoxia Events In Long Bay, South Carolina, Usa., Denise Sanger, Debra Hernandez, Susan Libes, George Voulgaris, Braxton Davis, Erik Smith, Rebecca Shufford, Dwayne Porter, Eric Koepfler, Joseph Bennet
George Voulgaris
Communication of knowledge between the scientific and management communities is a difficult process complicated by the distinctive nature of professional career goals of scientists and decision-makers. This article provides a case history highlighting a collaboration between the science and management communities that resulted from a response to a 2004 hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen, event in Long Bay, off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A working group of scientists and decision-makers was established at the time of the event and has continued to interact to develop a firm understanding of the drivers responsible for hypoxia formation in Long Bay. Several factors …
Evolution Of The Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Structural, Petrologic, And Thermochronologic Constraints, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, William Dinklage, Yu Wang, Phillip Gans, Andrew Calvert, Ann Blythe, William Mcclelland
Evolution Of The Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Structural, Petrologic, And Thermochronologic Constraints, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley Hacker, William Dinklage, Yu Wang, Phillip Gans, Andrew Calvert, Ann Blythe, William Mcclelland
Ann Blythe
Structural, thermobarometric, and thermochronologic investigations of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet, suggest that both extensional and contractional deformational histories are preserved within the dome. The dome is cored by an orthogneiss which is mantled by staurolite + kyanite zone metasedimentary rocks; metamorphic grade dies out up section and is defined by a series of concentric kyanite-in, staurolite-in, garnet-in, and chloritoid-in isograds. Three major deformational events, two older penetrative events and a younger doming event, are preserved. The oldest event, D1, resulted in approximately E-W trending tight to isoclinal folds of bedding with an associated moderately to steeply north dipping axial …
Assessing The Impact Of An Organic Restoration Structure On Boat Wake Energy, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Bernard Bauer, Jeffrey Hart
Assessing The Impact Of An Organic Restoration Structure On Boat Wake Energy, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Bernard Bauer, Jeffrey Hart
Jean Taylor Ellis
No abstract provided.
Depth Compensation For Pressure Transducer Measurements Of Boat Wakes, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Bernard Bauer
Depth Compensation For Pressure Transducer Measurements Of Boat Wakes, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Bernard Bauer
Jean Taylor Ellis
No abstract provided.
Retention Of Beach Sands By Dams And Debris Basins In Southern California, Douglas Sherman, Kamron Barron, Jean Ellis
Retention Of Beach Sands By Dams And Debris Basins In Southern California, Douglas Sherman, Kamron Barron, Jean Ellis
Jean Taylor Ellis
No abstract provided.
Wave Transformation Across A Rock Platform, Belinho, Portugal, Eugene Farrell, Helena Granja, Lorenzo Cappietti, Jean Ellis, Bailiang Li, Douglas Sherman
Wave Transformation Across A Rock Platform, Belinho, Portugal, Eugene Farrell, Helena Granja, Lorenzo Cappietti, Jean Ellis, Bailiang Li, Douglas Sherman
Jean Taylor Ellis
No abstract provided.
Surviving Mass Extinction By Bridging The Benthic/Planktic Divide, Kate Darling, Ellen Thomas, Simone Kasemann, Heidi Seears, Christopher Smart, Christopher Wade
Surviving Mass Extinction By Bridging The Benthic/Planktic Divide, Kate Darling, Ellen Thomas, Simone Kasemann, Heidi Seears, Christopher Smart, Christopher Wade
Ellen Thomas
Evolution of planktic organisms from benthic ancestors is commonly thought to represent unidirectional expansion into new ecological domains, possibly only once per clade. For foraminifera, this evolutionary expansion occurred in the Early–Middle Jurassic, and all living and extinct planktic foraminifera have been placed within 1 clade, the Suborder Globigerinina. The subsequent radiation of planktic foraminifera in the Jurassic and Cretaceous resulted in highly diverse assemblages, which suffered mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, leaving an impoverished assemblage dominated by microperforate triserial and biserial forms. The few survivor species radiated to form diverse assemblages once again in the Cenozoic. …
Making The States Full Partners In A National Climate Change Effort: A Necessary Element For Sustainable Economic Development, John Dernbach, Robert Mckinstry, Thomas Peterson
Making The States Full Partners In A National Climate Change Effort: A Necessary Element For Sustainable Economic Development, John Dernbach, Robert Mckinstry, Thomas Peterson
John C. Dernbach
This article explains why states and localities need to be full partners in a national climate change effort based on federal legislation or the existing Clean Air Act. A large share of reductions with the lowest cost and the greatest co-benefits (e.g., job creation, technology development, reduction of other pollutants) are in areas that a federal cap-and-trade program or other purely federal measures will not easily reach. These are also areas where the states have traditionally exercised their powers—including land use, building construction, transportation, and recycling. The economic recovery and expansion will require direct state and local management of climate …
Deformation Of Continental Crust Along A Transform Boundary, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Scott Bogue, Margaret Rusmore, Karen Dodson, Kenneth Farley, Glenn Woodsworth
Deformation Of Continental Crust Along A Transform Boundary, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Scott Bogue, Margaret Rusmore, Karen Dodson, Kenneth Farley, Glenn Woodsworth
Scott Bogue
New structural, paleomagnetic, and apatite (U-Th)/He results from the continental margin inboard of the Queen Charlotte fault (∼54°N) delineate patterns of brittle faulting linked to transform development since ∼50 Ma. In the core of the orogen, ∼250 km from the transform, north striking, dip-slip brittle faults and vertical axis rotation of large crustal domains occurred after ∼50 Ma and before intrusion of mafic dikes at 20 Ma. By 20 Ma, dextral faulting was active in the core of the orogen, but extension had migrated toward the transform, continuing there until <9 Ma. Local tilting in the core of the orogen …
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Sutherland, Mark Sutherland
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Sutherland, Mark Sutherland
Mark Sutherland
Interview with Mark J. Sutherland about his earth science teaching career at College of DuPage.
Very Rapid Geomagnetic Field Change Recorded By The Partial Remagnetization Of A Lava Flow, Scott Bogue, Jonathan Glen
Very Rapid Geomagnetic Field Change Recorded By The Partial Remagnetization Of A Lava Flow, Scott Bogue, Jonathan Glen
Scott Bogue
A new paleomagnetic result from a lava flow with a distinctive, two-part remanence reinforces the controversial hypothesis that geomagnetic change during a polarity reversal can be much faster than normal. The 3.9-m-thick lava (“Flow 20”) is exposed in the Sheep Creek Range (north central Nevada) and was erupted during a reverse-to-normal (R-N) geomagnetic polarity switch at 15.6 Ma. Flow 20 began to acquire a primary thermoremanence while the field was pointing east and down but was soon buried, reheated, and partially-remagnetized in a north-down direction by the 8.2-m-thick flow that succeeded it. A simple conductive cooling calculation shows that the …