期刊
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
卷 618, 期 -, 页码 35-51出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.024
关键词
Desert soils; Profile development index; Soil chronosequence
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation [EAR-1049966, EAR-1348076]
- New Mexico Geological Society
- NMT Graduate Student Association
Rates of soil development and dust accumulation were analyzed in the Socorro area of central New Mexico. The study found that the net silt-and-clay content increases with age in the soils, similar to the profile-mass carbonate contents, which are primarily sourced from eolian dust. Comparisons with other regions in New Mexico suggest that soil development occurs more rapidly in higher latitude regions due to greater precipitation, cooler temperatures, and slower rates of dust accumulation. This study highlights the importance of understanding soil development and its controlling factors in arid and semi-arid regions.
Rates of soil development provide critical information about the types and rates of geomorphic and landscape evolutionary processes. Soil development in arid and semiarid regions of the southwestern United States is predominantly controlled by influx of eolian dust, yet our ability to quantify the rates of morphologic development and of dust and carbonate incorporation is limited by available age control. We describe 10 pedons in the Socorro area of central New Mexico and analyze their silt, clay, and carbonate contents. These soils have wellestablished direct or indirect age control that we used to estimate average rates of dust and carbonate accumulation over the past similar to 0.5-800 ka. We also computed the profile development index (PDI) for these soils using 10 common morphologic properties and compare our resulting PDI chronofunction to those from northern and southern New Mexico. We find that the net silt-and-clay content increases in progressively older soils at rates similar to the profile-mass carbonate contents, presumably sourced primarily from eolian dust. Our chronofunction comparison indicates that soil development occurs more rapidly in higher latitude regions of New Mexico than in the drier warmer climates of the Socorro area and southern New Mexico. We interpret the N-S regional trend of soil development considering a regional climate gradient. We conclude that greater mean annual precipitation and cooler mean annual temperatures and/or slower rates of eolian dust accumulation into the soil profile at higher latitude northern sites cause the observed differences in regional soil development. This would promote greater mobility of available silt and clay, and also increase rates of soil formation, as indicated by the presence of argillans in late-Pleistocene soils of northern New Mexico.
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