Previous studies of pumiceous soils in Oregon indicated that
their physical and chemical properties were strongly related to the
porous nature of the pumice matrix. Soils developed on air-fall
pumice from the eruption of Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake, Oregon) had
low thermal conductivities and low volumetric heat capacities. Values
for...
Measurements for water retention calculations and physical
characterization were made on skeletal and non-skeletal soils in
southwest Oregon. A new bulk density sampler was designed for the
physical characterization of the steep, skeletal soils commonly
encountered in this area. The new sampler and the techniques
required for the measurement and...
The effects of soil temperature and soil water suction on the
uptake of calcium, magnesium, and potassium by wheat (Triticum
aestivum VILL., Host) were studied. Companion studies on uptake of
nitrogen and phosphorus provided background for discussion of the
results. Plants were grown in perlite slabs separated from an
osmotic...
Multiple use of waste heat from power plants may become an
important consideration in the development, siting, and certification
of these plants. A multiple use system of components that can
beneficially utilize waste heat may include home heating and cooling,
greenhouses, animal enclosures, open basins for single cell protein
production...
Maritime cyclonic windstorms cause widespread disturbance to forested ecosystems in southeast Alaska. The consequence of this disturbance process on the movement, storage, and quality of soil carbon, forest hydrology and streamwater chemistry was studied along a windthrow disturbance sequence. Soil profiles were described and the thickness of the major organic...
A study was conducted to investigate the nature of hydroxy
interlayers in the chlorite-like intergrade clays of three Oregon
soils with respect to kind, amount, stability, and conditions of
formation.
The clays of the Hembre, Wren, and Lookout soils, selected to
represent weathering products originating from basaltic materials
under humid,...
Experiments were carried out to study the movement of water and
halide anions in perched water tables or saturated zones in the soil
and upper rock mantle of eight different experimental sites located
on low hills near the western border of the Willamette Valley. At each
site the experimental procedure...
The objective of this study was to estimate the bulk densities and points on the moisture-tension curves and to determine their associated variances for some of the selected mapping units in Central Oregon. These variances will produce informations concerning the precision of the mean and the optimum sampling schemes, for...
Changes of density occur naturally in phase transition processes and introduce the bulk movement of material. It is customary in analyzing such problems to disregard this unpleasant complication and assume the densities to be equal. However, such changes are unavoidable and for one-dimensional problems the complexities introduced by this bulk...