Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 9:25 AM
Convention Center, Room 230, Second Floor
195: Symposium--Gypsum & Soluble Salts in Soils: I. Occurence, Dilemmas, and Solutions
Sponsor:S05 Pedology
Cosponsor:S09 Soil Mineralogy
Presiding:Chrisopher W. Smith, USDA-NRCS
9:25 AM Introductory Remarks
9:30 AM195-1Looking at Gypsum in Soils: From Gypsiferous to Gypseous.
Juan Herrero-Isern, Soils and Irrigation Dept., Philip Schoeneberger, USDA-NRCS
10:00 AM195-2Gypsiferous and Gypseous Soils: What We Know and What We Need to Change.
Wayne Hudnall, Texas Tech University, Lynn Loomis, USDA, Arlene Tugel, USDA-NRCS, Philip Schoeneberger, USDA-NRCS
10:15 AM195-3Hexahydrite Today, Gypsum Tomorrow: Dynamics of Salt Minerals in Soils.
Brenda J. Buck, Dept. Geoscience
10:30 AM195-4Pedogenic Salts of Southern Nevada and Their Landscapes.
Douglas Merkler, USDA-NRCS
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM195-5Hypergypsic Soils of the Culberson Gypsum Plain, Far West Texas.
Lynn Loomis, USDA-NRCS, Arlene Tugel, USDA-NRCS, Philip Schoeneberger, USDA-NRCS, Wayne Hudnall, Texas Tech University
11:15 AM195-6On the Gypseous Soils and Landscapes of Southern New Mexico.
H. Curtis Monger, New Mexico State University, Rebecca Kraimer, New Mexico State University, Kenneth Scheffe, USDA-NRCS, Greg W. Cates, USDA-NRCS, Gordon Michaud, USDA-NRCS, Austin Eldridge, USDA-NRCS, Justin Riggs, New Mexico State University, David Rachal, New Mexico State University
11:30 AM195-7Macro and Micro Gypsum Morphologies in Soils.
Douglas Wysocki, USDA-NRCS, Ellis Benham, USDA-NRCS, Philip Schoeneberger, USDA-NRCS
11:45 AM195-8Gypseous Soils in New Mexico.
Kenneth Scheffe, USDA-NRCS
12:00 PM Discussion
12:15 PM Adjourn
Cosponsor:S09 Soil Mineralogy

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