132-5 High Elevation Soils On Granite and Quartzite In An Arid Mountain Range.



Monday, October 17, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C, Street Level

Juanita Frisbie, Environmental Science, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Robert C. Graham, University of California, Riverside, CA
The White Mountains are a fault block mountain range representing a high elevation lithosequence. The purpose of this research is to analyze the differences in soil formation on two parent materials and determine the morphological variations that support the ecosystems.
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See more from this Session: Arid and Semi-Arid Soil Pedogenesis: Unraveling the Linkages Among Soil Genesis, Soil Mineralogy, and Quaternary Landscape Evolution: In Honor of B. L. Allen: II