Annotated Bibliography Project

WEEK #2

Jan Koper, Joanna Lemanowicz*, Anetta Siwik-Ziomek,(2014) How Fertilization

with Farmyard Manure and Nitrogen Affects Available Phosphorus Content and Phosphatase Activity in Soil, Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 23, No. 4, 1211-1217

What is the correlation between the content of available phosphorus and the activity of alkaline phosphates in soil.  The researchers wanted to find out if Nitrogen fertilizers would have any effect on the available phosphorus in the soil.  They found the highest increase of Phosphorus in FYM stored in Aerobic conditions.   They attributed it to the breakdown of organic residues and bacteria that could effectively break down the phosphorus.  Lime was also found to be a key ingredient, as it helped to break down the Phosphorus into usable forms.  They did see greater success with alkaline rather than acid phosphates.  They realized that the Ph affected the ability to use the nutrients and determined further studies needed.   

Rika E. Anderson, John A. Baross, William J. Brazelton,(2013) The Deep

Viriosphere:  Assessing the Viral Impact on Microbial Community Dynamics in the Deep Subsurface Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 75 (1): 649-675.https://doi-org.byui.idm.oclc.org/10.2138/rmg.2013.75.20

This article is looking at the possibility that viruses can affect the deep subsurface.  They believe that the lysogenic cycle may be the most common in the biosphere.  They discuss the mobility of viruses.  They ask if the viruses would have less movement because of the sediment and rock matrics, or because there is also fluid would that move viruses more easily. They found that viruses may release nutrients and compounds otherwise restricted.  The viruses altered and created diversity in the microbial communities.  They found that the role of the viruses tended to be more symbiotic than parasitic.  They wonder that this new found relationship between these ancient viruses may affect our understanding of the origens of life.

WEEK #3

Booth, M. S., Caldwell, M., & M. Stark, J.M., (2003). Inorganic N turnover and

availability in annual- and perennial-dominated soils in a northern Utah shrub steppe ecosystem. Biogeochemistry, 66(3), 311.

This study focused on the effect of the introduction of the annual grass, Bromus into Utah.  They were trying to discover how nutrient cycling may be affected.  It could affect how the soil decomposes.  This would affect the availability of inorganic N by altering the soil temperature and the moisture content.   They found the introduction of the annual grass lead to higher concentrations of N which in turn increased the risk of fire.  In all of their studies, they showed an increase of N, the greatest increase being 20%.   It did depend on the time of year the sample was taken.  The increase in Nitrogen should be a huge red flag before continuing to use the Bromus annual grass.

Folkoff, M. E., & Meentemeyer, V. (1987). Climatic Control of the Geography of

Clay Minerals Genesis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 77(4), 635.

This study wanted to link climate to clay mineral formations.  They found a link in 80% of the matter they studied.  The seasonal availability of soil moisture is linked to the chemical characteristics developed.  

WEEK #4

Chittoori, B., Puppala A.,(2011) Quantitative Estimation of Clay Mineralogy in Fine

Grained Soils,  Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering;Vol. 137 Issue 11, p997-1008.

This study wanted to Clay minerology distribution and dominant clay minerals.  They studied the clay minerals in 26 different soils and used 3 chemicals to test them.   They wanted to create a database for clay mineralogy.  This study will help provide effective information that will improve stabilization design guidelines.   It is helpful to understand chemical reactions and interactions between stabilizer additives and clay minerals in soil.

Christensen BT, Jensen JL, Munkholm LJ., Schjønning P, Watts CW,(2017)Soil

texture analysis revisited: Removal of organic matter matters more than ever. PLoS ONE.,12(5):1-10.

They looked at the effect of removing soil organic matter (SOM) by H2O2 before soil dispersion.  This was in effort to help predict how the soil interacted with water, water transportation and density. 

WEEK #5

Narasimha R.S., & Rajasekaran, G. (1994). Lime injection technique to improve the

behavior of soft marine clays. Ocean Engineering, 21(1), 29–43. https://doi-org.byui.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/0029-8018(94)90027-2

This article looked at injecting lime grout into clay to change the cementation and compact nature of clay soil.   The use of lime helps to increase plasticity and strength properties.  They found through their study that injecting lime into the clay soil decreased compressibility.  It changed the structures of CaO and ph.  Although this was done in a water environment, the same application could help clay compaction in regular soils.

Nicou, R. (1986). Influence of soil plowing on soil physical properties and growth

of annual crops in semiarid West Africa: Relevance to tree planting. Forest Ecology and Management, 16(1), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1127(86)90012-5

This article looks at the different treatments of a clay/sandy soil to increase food production in Africa.  They proposed that tilling the clay soil increase water distribution and water efficiency, which helped plants develop greater root systems.  They concluded that it was critical for plants to increase their productivity.  They still needed further testing on trees. 

WEEK #6

Bennett, J. M., & Marchuk, A. Zhu, Y., (2019). Reduction of hydraulic conductivity

and loss of organic carbon in non-dispersive soils of different clay mineralogy is related to magnesium induced disaggregation. Geoderma, 349, 1–10. https://doi.org.byui.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.04.019

Four different clay soils were studied focusing on the effect of Mg on saturated hydraulic conductivity, the interaction with carbon, and soil clay dispersion.  Mg was found to have a disaggregate effect on soil structure stability.  Results were more pronounced on smectic and illitic soils.  They found a correlation in the crystalline swelling of Mg treated soil clays.

De Andrade Bonetti, J., Anghinoni, I., Fink, J. R., & De Moraes, M. T., (2017).

Resilience of soils with different texture, mineralogy and organic matter under long-term conservation systems. Soil & Tillage Research, 174, 104–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2017.06.008

The researchers wanted to find the effect of physical resilience in soils due to organic matter content, texture, and minerology.  They subjected the different soil samples to wet and dry cycles to determine bulk density, porosity, and air permeability.  Macroporosity was the main attribute affected by soil recovery.  Oxisol soil showed a greater resilience than Ultisol because of increased porosity.  They also contained a greater amount of organic matter, clay content and iron to help reduce the soil stress. 

WEEK #7

Bortoluzzi, E, D., Caner, D. Diovane. B., Kaminski, Moterle, J., b., L. Laurent.,

Santos Rheinheimer,(2016). Impact of potassium fertilization and potassium uptake by plants on soil clay mineral assemblage in South Brazil. Plant & Soil, 406(1/2), 157–172. https://doi-org.byui.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2862-9

We all know Potassium(K) fertilization helps with crop productivity.  This study wanted to look at crop productivity in soils with and without Potassium.  They also wanted to look at the amounts that are taken up by the plants.  They also wanted to observe how the clay mineralogy changes with the history and impact of Potassium.   The challenge is finding a balance for individual soil properties that benefits the plants and the soil.  

Abbadie, L, Barré, P.,& Velde, B.,(2007). Dynamic role of “illite-like” clay minerals

in temperate soils: facts and hypotheses. Biogeochemistry, 82(1), 77–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-006-9054-2

Illite is a structure important in clay-like soils.  The amount of illite available to plants increase the illite-like content of the soil.  This becomes the main source of potassium available for plants.   They propose increasing the exchangeable potassium in the soil to help crops and prevent layer destabilization.  

They concluded with a couple questions that seem interesting to study further.  Is destabilization a result of chemical processes or does it involve microorganisms?  How do plants vary in their ability to absorb potassium?

WEEK #8

Kovacs, J., Ottner, F., Raucsik, B., Ujvari, G., Varga, A., & Varga, G., (2013)

Clay minerology of red clay deposits from the central Carpathian Basin(Hungary): Implications for Plio-Pleistocene chemical weathering and paleoclimate. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 22(3), 414-426.  http://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1201-4

This was a study about the Red clays in Central Hungary.  They studied the minerology to find that the climate during the Late Pliocene-Early Pliocene Epoch was considerably more humid and warmer than they had previously thought.  They wanted to determine if the changes in the clay minerals were due to chemical weathering and age versus time.  They concluded that the weather during the Pliocene Epoch was cooler and had less precipitation than previously thought.

Giannakopoulou, F., Gasparatos, D., Haidouti, C., & Massas, I., (2012).  Sorption

Behavior of Cesium in Two Greek Soils: Effects of C’s Initial Concentration, Clay Minerology, and Particle-size Fraction, Soil & Sediment Concentration,21(8), 937-950.    https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2012.714418

This study was trying to determine the ability of soil to absorb Cesium.  They studied soil with the same amount of clay content and the same amount of potassium.  They compared the stable Cesium to better understand the radioactive isotope reaction to the ecosystem.  The soils did vary in clay minerology.  They found that soil particle size and the amount of C in the initial concentration was found to affect the absorption rate.  When they removed the sand, the absorption increased.

WEEK #9

Caner, L., Hubert, F., Lanson, B., & Meunier, A.(2009). Advances in

characterization of soil clay minerology using X-ray diffraction: from decomposition to profile fitting. European Journal of Soil Science, 60(6), 1093-1105. https://doi-org.byui.idm.oclc.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2009.01194.x

They wanted to characterize the minerology and crystal chemistry of clay.  They were able to significantly improve the characterization of clay minerals in diagenic and hydothermiall enviroments. 

Allanore, A., Ciceri, D. (2015). Microfluidic Leaching of Soil Minerals: Realease of

K+ from K Feldspar. PLOS ONE, 10(10), 1-10. https://doi-org.byui.idm.oc;c.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139979

They want to extract K ions from K-feldspar rock in a microfluidic environment so that it could be of used for agronomic benefit.   They found a positive response in their ability to leach out stonemeal fertilizers.

WEEK #10

H., Al-Shukri, A., Carakli, H., Mahdi, H., (2011). Texture analysis of GPR data as a

  tool for depicting soil mineralogy. 2011 IEEE      

  Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR),               

  https://doi-org.byui.idm.oclc.org/10.1109/AIPR.2011.6176377

This study developed a code that can be added to current analysis measures                                                that help to see the distinction between minerals.  Their codes helped to   differentiate between mineral samples using several characteristics.  Some of the key characteristics that they were able to use were moisture content, high contrast, and correlation.  They found the use in tandem with current modes of analysis the code helped to identify the 2 minerals studied.  The results     looked promising and further testing encouraged.

Arvidson, R. E., Bell III, J. F., Blaney, D., Bruckner, J., Christensen, P. R., Clark, B. C.,

Crisp, J. A., DesMariais, D. J., De Souza Jr., P. A., Economou, T. E., Gellert, R., Ghosh, A., Hahn, B.C.,  Herkenhoff, K. E.,  Haskin, L.A., Knudson, A. T., Ming, D. W., Morris, R. V., Schroder, C., Yen, A. S., (2005).  An Integrated view of the chemistry and minerology of Martian soils.  Nature, 436(7047), 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03637

This was just plain fun to find.  They were able to identify indicators of chemical and physical weathering processes from the soil samples taken from Mars. They found soil deposits at both sites to contain similar basaltic mineralogy.   They found olivine and resolved that there were limited amounts of water alterations.   They also found nickel residue which could be meteor residue.  Mars had some recognizable minerals in their dust composition.  They had pyroxene, plagioclase feldspar, and olivine in larger amounts.  It was neat to read about rocks on a different planet. 

WEEK #11

Brossard, M., Bruand, A., Cousin, I., Guegan, R., Martins E.S., Reatto, & A.,Silva, E. M.,

(2009).  Shrinkage of microaggregates in Brazilian Latosols during drying: significance of the clay content, mineralogy and hydric stress history. European Journal of Soil Science, 60(6), 1106-1116.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2009.01189.x

This study looked at Latosol’s, which is soil under tropical rainforests.  It contains high amounts of iron and aluminum.  The soil itself is characterized by poor soil differentiation, strong microgranular structure mainly formed with microaggregates, and poor shrinkage properties.  They focused their study on the shrinkage properties and water retention.  The pore volume was closely associated with the clay content.  They found less shrinkage in the microaggregates in certain areas.  They attributed the shrinkage to their different amounts of water stress.

Feng, X., Gu, L., L., Li, F., Liu, Tao, L., Wang, B., … Xu, M. (2019). Mitigation of soil

acidification through changes in soil mineralogy due to long-term fertilization in southern China. Catena, 174, 227–234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.11.023

They wanted to understand the acidification of the soil and how it was affected by long-term fertilization.  They wanted to focus on the mineralogies of iron oxides in clay and how they specifically responded to the acidification.  There was a correlation between soil ph and the soil composition.  There was a difference in soil fertilized with Nitrogen and soil fertilized with manure.  Manure treated soil was actually able to maintain a better ph and reduce the process of acidification. 

WEEK #12

Griffiths, P.G., & Rudd, L.P., Webb, R.H. (2008).  Holocene debris flows on the

Colorado Plateau: The influence of clay mineralogy and chemistry.  Geological Society of American Bulletin, 120(7-8), 1010.  https://doi.org/10.1130/B26055.1

This was a proactive study working on analyzing the soil structure where debris flows occur in the Colorado Plateau.   They found some of the contributing factors were Steep topography, precipitation, poorly sorted material that was not being stabilized by vegetation, and exposure of the bedrock.  They investigated the relationship between the clay minerology and the chemistry of the bedrocks and the correlation with the occurrence of debris flows.  They suggested several reasons for debris flows to occur with the presence of clay.  Joints saturated, swelling, and sealing could facilitate failures.

Allen, B. L., Weindorf, D. C., & Zartman, R.E., (2006) Effect of Compost on Soil

Properties in Dallas, Texas.  Compost Science & Utilization, 14(1), 59.

An interesting study on the effective use of compost to increase the soil productivity.  They studied 7 areas over a two-year period.  The effectiveness of the compost was affected mostly by soil texture, soil mineralogy, and climatic effects, not specifically the addition of compost.  They did find that soil water content did increase as well as eliminating some of the sink/swell issues in soil.  They didn’t feel that there was a significant difference for use for production.