Oxygen isotopic ratios of quartz from wind-erosive soils of southwestern United States in relation to aerosol dust

Author:

Sridhar, K., Jackson, M.L., Clayton, R.N., Gillete, D.A., Hawley, J.W.

Title:

Oxygen isotopic ratios of quartz from wind-erosive soils of southwestern United States in relation to aerosol dust

Periodical:

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Year:

1978

Volume:

42

Pages:

158-162

Subject:

Southwestern United States Lake sediments Lake Waiau Quartz

Summary:

The objective of this paper was to report on the oxygen isotopic ratios of quartz from the whole soil and of the 1 - 10 micron size fraction of quarts from several wind-eroding soils from west Texas and other southwestern states such as Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado. Comparisons were also made to ratios of soils from three Hawaiian soils and two sediments from Lake Waiau that occur at an altitude of 3,970 meters on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

Label:

Geology

Date:

1978

Collection:

Periodicals