Joint SEPM-NSF Workshop: Paleosols and Surface Soil System Analogs; September 21-25, 2010 at Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP), Arizona

本次会议将由SEPM和NSF共同主办，由SEPM提供会议登记和后勤的主要管理。在这项提案中，个人投资计划试图解决这六个关键的中心科学问题，它们具有重要的学术价值：1)地质记录中不同类型的古土壤的保存潜力是什么？2)古土壤中记录的时间和事件保存的保真度是多少？3)古土壤在层序地层学中的“适用性”是什么？4)目前的古气候“工具包”是否包括尽可能先进的野外形态和地球化学指标？5)美国农业部标准土壤物理和化学表征技术可以在多大程度上用于确定古土壤的胶体性质？6)美国国家研究委员会-国家科学基金会“关键地带”是否充分代表了古土壤研究？

This conference will be co-sponsored by SEPM and NSF, with primary administration of the meeting registration and logistics provided by SEPM. In this proposal PIs seek to address these six key central scientific questions, which have significant intellectual merit:1) What is the preservation potential of different types of paleosols in the geologic record?2) What is the fidelity of time and event preservation recorded in paleosols?3) Where do paleosols "fit" in sequence-stratigraphy?4) Is the current paleoclimate "toolkit" comprised of field morphological and geochemical proxies as advanced as it can likely become?5) To what extent can standard USDA soil physical and chemical characterization techniques be used for establishing colloidal properties of paleosols?6) Is paleosol research adequately represented within the US National Research Council-National Science Foundation "Critical Zone"?