264 Symposium--Carbonates, Gypsum, Salts, and Dust

Oral Session
SSSA Division: Soil Mineralogy
This session will focus on carbonates, gysum, and soluble salts in soils, and the impacts of dust on soil mineralogy.

Approved for 2.0 NM CEUs

Cosponsor(s):

SSSA Division: Pedology
SSSA Division: Forest, Range and Wildland Soils

Tuesday, November 8, 2016: 1:25 PM-3:40 PM
Phoenix Convention Center North, Room 131 B

Organizers:
Judith K. Turk and Randal J. Southard
Moderator:
Rebecca Lybrand
1:25 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:30 PM
Soil and Paleoclimatology.
Ronald G. Amundson, University of California-Berkeley; Erik Oerter, University of Utah
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
Accumulation of Evaporite Minerals and Pedogenic Carbonates in the Agricultural Soils of Southwest US: An Imporant CO2 Efflux from Dryland to Atmosphere?.
Lixin Jin, University of Texas at El Paso; Anna Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso; Syprose Nyachoti, University of Texas at El Paso; Lin Ma, University of Texas at El Paso
3:30 PM
Discussion
3:40 PM
Adjourn