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Soil formation and transport processes on hillslopes along a precipitation gradient in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Soil formation and transport processes on hillslopes along a precipitation gradient in the Atacama Desert, Chile./
Author:	Owen, Justine Janet.
Description:	181 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: B, page: 2912.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-05B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Soil Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3402642
ISBN:	9781109749885

Soil formation and transport processes on hillslopes along a precipitation gradient in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Owen, Justine Janet.

Soil formation and transport processes on hillslopes along a precipitation gradient in the Atacama Desert, Chile. - 181 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: B, page: 2912.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

The climate-dependency of the rates and types of soil formation processes on level landforms has been recognized and documented for decades. In contrast, methods for quantifying rates of soil formation and transport on hillslopes have only recently been developed and the results suggest that these rates are independent of climate. The effects of both tectonics and life can obscure climatic effects. Recent studies have been made to isolate the climatic effect on hillslope processes, but they are few and focus on humid and semiarid hillslopes.

ISBN: 9781109749885Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017824
Agriculture, Soil Science.

Soil formation and transport processes on hillslopes along a precipitation gradient in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
520 $a The climate-dependency of the rates and types of soil formation processes on level landforms has been recognized and documented for decades. In contrast, methods for quantifying rates of soil formation and transport on hillslopes have only recently been developed and the results suggest that these rates are independent of climate. The effects of both tectonics and life can obscure climatic effects. Recent studies have been made to isolate the climatic effect on hillslope processes, but they are few and focus on humid and semiarid hillslopes.
520 $a In order to isolate the effects of boundary condition, precipitation, and life, I studied pairs of hillslopes in northern Chile in semiarid, arid, and hyperarid climates. My objectives were to quantify the components of the mass balance model, identify the processes driving soil production from bedrock and soil transport, and interpret this data in the context of climate and hillslope morphology. In the field, I made observations of the processes driving soil formation and transport, surveyed the hillslopes to produce high-resolution topographic maps, and sampled soils and rock for chemical analysis and particle size analysis. In addition, to understand the effect of precipitation on the landscape and to quantify the infiltration rate of the soil, sprinkling experiments were conducted in each climate region and infiltrometer measurements were made in the hyperarid region.
520 $a The effect of boundary condition on soil thickness was observed in all climate zones, with thicker soils on hillslopes with non-eroding boundaries compared to hillslopes bounded by channels. However, the expected effect of boundary condition on the rates of soil production from bedrock, with slower erosion rates on hillslopes with non-eroding boundaries, decreased as precipitation decreased. In contrast to previous work on wetter hillslopes which showed little climatic sensitivity, rates of soil production from bedrock increase with precipitation following a power law, from &sim; 1 m My-1 in the hyperarid region to &sim; 40 m My-1 in the semiarid region. A geomorphic and pedologic threshold was observed at mean annual precipitation (MAP) &sim;100 mm, marked by changes in soil chemistry and thickness, types of erosion mechanisms, and rates of soil production. In the semiarid region, where MAP = 100 mm, the hillslopes are soil-mantled with a relatively thick, chemically-weathered soil where MAP is high enough to support coastal desert vegetation. Soil formation and transport is primarily through bioturbation. As MAP decreases to 10 mm in the arid region, the hillslopes are nearly soil- and plant-free, and soil transport is through overland flow, rather than bioturbation. In the hyperarid region, where MAP is <2 mm, the hillslopes are mantled with salt-rich soils which are primarily derived from atmospheric input rather than bedrock erosion. Soil transport is through overland flow and likely some salt shrink-swell.
520 $a The spatially-explicit physical erosion rates were used to test the applicability of four soil transport models. Where bioturbation is active, soil transport is slope- and depth-dependent. In the plant-free regions, soil transport is a function of slope and distance downslope. The transport coefficients in the transport models increase several orders of magnitude with increasing MAP. A comparison of these values with those determined on wetter hillslopes suggests that at MAP<100 mm, transport coefficients are a function of MAP. Where MAP>100 mm, they are a function of the types of organisms driving bioturbation and other soil properties. This threshold corresponds to the MAP below which there is a dramatic decrease in net primary productivity (NPP), and suggests that hillslope process rates are sensitive to MAP where the effect of life is small.
520 $a A unique feature on the hyperarid hillslopes was darkly-varnished, contour-parallel bands of gravels on the soil surface which I call "zebra stripes". Based on cosmogenic radionuclide concentrations in surface gravel and bedrock, as well as salt deposition rates from the atmosphere and content in the soils, I propose that the salt-rich soils began accumulating >0.5-1 Ma and the zebra stripes formed in the last 103-105 y. The zebra stripe pattern has been preserved due to the self-stabilization of the gravels within the stripes and the continued absence of life (which would disturb the surface, as seen at the arid site). The accumulation of the salt-rich mantle and the formation of zebra stripes suggest a profound climatic change occurred sometime between the late Pliocene and early Holocene. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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