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Tb108: Chemical And Physical Properties Of The Becket, Colton, Finch, Lyman, Masardis, Naumburg, And Skerry Soil Mapping Units, R. V. Rourke, D. C. Bull Oct 1982

Tb108: Chemical And Physical Properties Of The Becket, Colton, Finch, Lyman, Masardis, Naumburg, And Skerry Soil Mapping Units, R. V. Rourke, D. C. Bull

Technical Bulletins

Soil morphology and soil characterization studies were done on seven soil mapping units in Maine. Soil profiles were selected, described and sampled jointly by soil scientists from the Soil Conservation Service, USDA and the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Chemical and physical measurements of each soil mapping unit were made in the laboratory. Soil profile description and the laboratory determinations are presented for each sample site.


Tb105: The Composition Of Equilibrium Soil Solutions From Forest Soil B Horizons, Ivan J. Fernandez, Roland A. Struchtemeyer May 1982

Tb105: The Composition Of Equilibrium Soil Solutions From Forest Soil B Horizons, Ivan J. Fernandez, Roland A. Struchtemeyer

Technical Bulletins

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the composition of B horizon equilibrium soil solutions from selected Maine forest soils. The B horizon was chosen for evaluation because it (1) best expressed the weathering processes active in the soil, (2) occupied the greatest volume of the solum, (3) had the most complex chemistry of the major horizons, and (4) provided the major corridor in forested ecosystems for subsurface flow and chemical alteration of ground waters.


Source And Climatic Implication Of The Reactive Iron And Reactive Silicate Concentration Found In A Core From Meserve Glacier, Antartica, Paul Andrew Mayewski, William Berry Lyons Mar 1982

Source And Climatic Implication Of The Reactive Iron And Reactive Silicate Concentration Found In A Core From Meserve Glacier, Antartica, Paul Andrew Mayewski, William Berry Lyons

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

Glaciochemistry has recently provided a useful tool in the study of snow accumulation rates (Herron and Langway, 1979; Bulter et al., 1980 Warburton and Young, 1981; Mayewski et al., in press) and the elucidation of long-term climatic change (Delmas et al., 1980; Thompson and Mosley-Thompson, 1981) as well as the definition of aerosol/precipitation source areas (Warburton and Linkletter, 1978). Recent glaciochemical work from Antarctica has suggested that although cations associated with seasalt(Na, Mg, Ca and K) decrease in concentration as one proceeds inland, crustally-derived chemical species such as Al and Fe remain relatively constant in snow and ice (Boutron and …


Geochemical And Glacio-Geomorphic Implications Of Basalt Weathering In The Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica, R. W. Talkington, Paul Andrew Mayewski, H. E. Gaudette Jan 1982

Geochemical And Glacio-Geomorphic Implications Of Basalt Weathering In The Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica, R. W. Talkington, Paul Andrew Mayewski, H. E. Gaudette

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

Summary. The weathering of a suite of basalt clasts. that have been transported by mass wasting downslope in the Cumulus Hills region of the Queen Maud Mountains. Antarctica. is examined from both geochemical and glacio-geomorphic viewpoints. Chemical weathering. predominantly oxidation and hydration. increases in severity from clast core to rim for the suite. These weathering processes and concomitant formation of a weathering rind are suggested to be an accumulative process. culminating in the disaggregation of the rock due in part both to the chemical breakdown of the interstitial and intersertal basaltic glass and to physical weathering processes. Mass wasting rates …


Upper Rennick Glacier Ice Massfluctuation Study, Paul Andrew Mayewski Jan 1982

Upper Rennick Glacier Ice Massfluctuation Study, Paul Andrew Mayewski

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

Glacial geologic mapping conducted during the 1974-75 field season revealed that at least two glacial events have affected the upper Rennick Glacier region: an older Evans glaciation probably correlative with a major expansion of the east antarctic ice sheet, and the Rennick glaciation, which since the end of the late Wisconsin has been in a retreat phase (Mayewski, Attig, and Drewry 1979). Ice surface reconstructions suggest that (1) in the area of the current Rennick Glacier grounding line, approximately 120 kilometers inland from its current terminus, Evansice was at least 1,000 meters higher and Rennick ice as much as 600meters …