Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 372DE

Presiding:

Rivka Amit , Eric McDonald and Yehouda Enzel

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

335-1

The Desert Project: An Analysis of Aridland Soil-Geomorphic Processes

H. Curtis Monger, New Mexico State University; Leland H. Gile; John Hawley; Robert B. Grossman, Natural Resources Conservation Service

8:25 AM

335-2

Relating Mass and Energy Fluxes to Arid Soil Development

Michael H. Young, Desert Research Institute; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Todd G. Caldwell, Desert Research Institute

8:45 AM

335-3

Pedogenesis In Response to Quaternary-Scale Aridification of the Negev Desert, Israel

Rivka Amit, Geol Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ori Simhai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ari Matmon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Itai Haviv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Naomi Porat, Geol Survey of Israel; Lucilla Benedetti; Robert Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

9:00 AM

335-4

Sand Dunes Are a Major Proximal Coarse Dust Source for Late Pleistocene Desert Margin Loess, the Negev Desert, Israel

Onn Crouvi, Geol Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University; Rivka Amit, Geol Survey of Israel

9:15 AM

335-5

Constraining Ages of Desert Alluvial Surfaces According to Their Geomorphic Roughness as Measured from Space

Amit Mushkin, Geological Survey of Israel; Alan Gillespie, Univ of Washington; Rivka Amit, Geological Survey of Israel; Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9:30 AM

335-6

Accretionary Pavement Development and Landscape Stability on the Eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt

Katherine A. Adelsberger, Knox College; Jennifer R. Smith, Washington University

9:45 AM

335-7

Ecohydrologic Effects of Soil Mosaics in Patterned Australian Drylands

David L. Dunkerley, Monash University

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

335-8

New Field Data Supporting the Role of Insolation in Physical Weathering

Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; D. Griffing, Hartwick College; Leslie McFadden, University of New Mexico; John A. Diemer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Daigneault, Hartwick College; Bradley Gordon Johnson, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Melissa Karlin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Vijaya Gagrani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Yong Hong Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; L. Scuderi, Univ of New Mexico

10:30 AM

335-9

Numerical Simulations of Salt Accumulation In a Hyper-Arid Soil Chronosequence In the Sonoran Desert

Todd G. Caldwell, Desert Research Institute; Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Michael Young, Desert Research Institute; Steven N. Bacon, Desert Research Institute; Giles M. Marion, Desert Research Institute

10:45 AM

335-10

Soil Evolution during the Past 30,000 Years In the Black Rock Desert, Utah, SW USA

Jan-Uwe Schmidt, Dresden University of Technology; Arno Kleber, Dresden University of Technology; Michael Dietze, Dresden University of Technology

11:00 AM

335-11

Soil Formation in the Mojave Desert: New TCN Information Suggests Rates of Soil Formation May Exceed Previously Established Rates

Eric V. McDonald, Desert Research Institute; John Gosse, Dalhousie Univ

11:15 AM

335-12

Boundary Conditions and Climate: Dual Controls on Hillslope Evolution in the Atacama Desert

Justine Owen, University of California, Berkeley; Ronald Amundson, U.C. Berkeley; William Dietrich, Univ of California, Berkeley; Kuni Nishiizumi, UC Berkeley

11:30 AM

335-13

Paper Withdrawn

11:45 AM

335-14

Pedogenic Processes and Paleoclimatic Significance of Sulfate Soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Jason A. Rech, Miami University; Brenda J. Buck, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas

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