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<p>List of Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface xi</p> <p><b>Part I: Soil Definition 1</b></p> <p>1. Soil as a System: A History<br /><i>Richard J. Huggett</i> 3</p> <p><b>Part II: Soil History 21</b></p> <p>2. Soils, Chemical Weathering, and Climate Change in Earth History<br /><i>Steven G. Driese, Lee C. Nordt, and Gary E. Stinchcomb</i> 23</p> <p><b>Part III: Soil Formation Processes 67</b></p> <p>3. Soil Formation, Vegetation Growth, and Water Balance: A Theory for Budyko<br /><i>Allen Hunt</i> 69</p> <p>4. Earthworms, Plants, and Soils<br /><i>Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Géraldine Bullinger, Andreas Schomburg, Pascal Turberg, Philip Brunner, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, and Claire Guenat</i> 81</p> <p>5. Tephra for the Trees? Geochemical Constraints on Weathering and Tephra Inputs to Soils on New Zealand’s North Island<br /><i>Claire E. Lukens and Kevin P. Norton</i> 105</p> <p>6. The Origin and Formation of Clay Minerals in Alpine Soils<br /><i>Markus Egli and Aldo Mirabella</i> 121</p> <p><b>Part IV: Application of Chemical Weathering/Soil Formation in Other Disciplines 139</b></p> <p>7. Weathering Rinds as Tools for Constraining Reaction Kinetics and Duration of Weathering at the Clast-Scale<br /><i>Peter B. Sak</i> 141</p> <p>8. Unraveling Loess Records of Climate Change from the Chinese Loess Plateau Using Process-Based Models<br /><i>Peter A. Finke, Keerthika Nirmani Ranathunga Arachchige, Ann Verdoodt, Yanyan Yu, and Qiuzhen Yin</i> 163</p> <p>9. Relations Between Soil Development and Landslides<br /><i>Arnaud J.A.M. Temme</i> 177</p> <p>10A. Soils in Agricultural Engineering: Effect of Land-Use Management Systems on Mechanical Soil Processes<br /><i>Rainer F. Horn</i> 187</p> <p>10B. Soil Strength and Carbon Sequestration<br /><i>Rattan Lal</i> 201</p> <p><b>Part V: Integrated Studies of Soils 205</b></p> <p>11. Chemical Weathering in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica<br /><i>W. Berry Lyons, Deborah L. Leslie, and Michael N. Gooseff</i> 207</p> <p>12. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes Within Southeastern Piedmont Critical Zones<br /><i>Todd C. Rasmussen, Maryam Foroughi, and Daniel Markewitz</i> 217</p> <p>13. Is This Steady State? Weathering and Critical Zone Architecture in Gordon Gulch, Colorado Front Range<br /><i>Suzanne P. Anderson, Patrick J. Kelly, Noah Hoffman, Katherine Barnhart, Kevin Befus, and William Ouimet</i> 231</p> <p>14. Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Pedogenesis Through Chemical Weathering, Hydrologic Fluxes, and Bioturbation<br /><i>Allen Hunt, Markus Egli, and Boris Faybishenko</i> 253</p> <p>Index 270</p>

<p><b>Allen Hunt,</b> Wright University, USA.</p> <p><b>Markus Egli,</b> University of Zurich, Switzerland.</p> <p><b>Boris Faybishenko,</b> Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.</p>

<p><b>Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation<br> GEOPHYSICAL MONOGRAPH SERIES</b> <p>Soil is a narrow but critically important zone on Earth's surface. It is the interface for water and carbon recycling from above and part of the cycling of sediment and rock from below. <p><i>Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation</i> places chemical weathering and soil formation in its geological, climatological, biological and hydrological perspective. <p><b>Volume highlights include:</b> <ul> <li>The evolution of soils over 3.25 billion years</li> <li>Basic processes contributing to soil formation</li> <li>How chemical weathering and soil formation relate to water and energy fluxes</li> <li>The role of pedogenesis in geomorphology</li> <li>Relationships between climate soils and biota</li> <li>Soils, aeolian deposits, and crusts as geologic dating tools</li> <li>Impacts of land-use change on soils</li> </ul>

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