@article {50843,
	title = {Inverted clast stratigraphy in an eolian archaeological environment},
	journal = {Geoarchaeology},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2002},
	note = {//?//LTER ?//},
	month = {2002},
	pages = {665-687},
	abstract = {<p>Understanding the geomorphic history of eolian basins is important in interpreting the archaeological record and human responses to past environments. One hundred forty soil profiles were excavated and described in southern New Mexico and West Texas. Seven major late Quaternary stratigraphic units were found: La Mesa, eolian Jornada (I, II), eolian Isaacks{\textquoteright} Ranch, eolian Organ (I, II, and III), Historical Blowsand, and the playa deposits of Petts Tank and Lake Tank. Each unit represents a period of landscape instability, eolian erosion, and concurrent deposition, followed by landscape stability and soil formation. Eolian erosion can form local surficial lag deposits if materials larger than the competence of the wind are present. However, erosional processes alone cannot explain the presence of older clasts at the surface with intact, younger deposits underneath. We propose a combination of processes: deflation in eolian windows, followed by lateral movement of clasts over areas that have not been deflated. The effects of these processes on artifact stratigraphy and archaeological interpretations could be significant.</p>
},
	keywords = {article, articles, eolian, journal, journals, stratigraphy, clast},
	doi = {10.1002/gea.10037},
	url = {files/bibliography/JRN00360.pdf},
	author = {B. J. Buck and Kipp, J. and Curtis H. Monger}
}
@article {51136,
	title = {Stable isotopes and soil-geomorphology as indicators of Holocene climate change, northern Chihuahuan Desert},
	journal = {Journal of Arid Environments},
	volume = {43},
	year = {1999},
	note = {//LOCAL//LTER III//},
	month = {1999},
	pages = {357-373},
	abstract = {<p>Coeval {\"a}<sup>13</sup> C shifts recorded in buried soils at both piedmont slope and basin floor sites in the northern Chihuahuan Desert indicate a major shift from C<sub>4</sub> grasses to C<sub>3</sub> desert-scrub between 7 and 9 ka. The age assignments are based on stratigraphic correlations to charcoal dates and carbon-14 dates of carbonate. This shift is synchronous with a period of cooling in the North Atlantic that may have triggered a period of drought in the southwestern United States. Coinciding with this vegetation change, geomorphic evidence in Rio Grande, piedmont, and basin floor eolian environments indicates a major period of erosion. Subsequent gradual enrichment of pedogenic carbonate {\"a}<sup>13</sup> C values in younger deposits suggests that C<sub>4</sub> grasses rebounded in the late Holocene (approximately 4 ka), which is consistent with other evidence of increased moisture regionally. A period of less severe aridity at approximately 2.2 ka is indicated by erosion and subsequent deposition along the alluvial fans and within the basin, and correlates with depleted pedogenic carbonate {\"a}<sup>13</sup> C values suggesting a decrease in C<sub>4</sub> grasses. Isotope and packrat midden records should be used together to infer past environmental conditions at different elevations.</p>
},
	keywords = {article, articles, climate change, geomorphology, climate change, isotopes, geomorphology, climate change, geomorphology, isotopes, Holocene, climate change, journal, journals, soil, geomorphology},
	doi = {10.1006/jare.1999.0584},
	url = {files/bibliography/JRN00292.pdf},
	author = {B. J. Buck and Curtis H. Monger}
}
@inbook {51206,
	title = {Eolian stratigraphy of intrabasinal fault depressions in the northern Hueco and southern TularosaBasins: Evidence for neotectonic activity},
	booktitle = {New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 49th Field Conference, Las Cruces Country II},
	year = {1998},
	note = {//LOCAL//LTER III//entered 12/21/2000; update 07/28/2008ProCite field[6]: In},
	month = {1998},
	pages = {79-86},
	publisher = {New Mexico Geological Society},
	organization = {New Mexico Geological Society},
	abstract = {North-south-trending depressions, which parallel the major boundary faults between the northern Hueco and southern Tularosa Basins and the Franklin, Organ, and San Andres Mountains, have been interpreted as small intrabasinal normal faults.  This project excavated and described about 140 profiles, including 81 within 8 intrabasinal fault complexes as part of an archaeological study to determine the late Quaternary stratigraphy within the basin.  Our results show 5 major stratigraphic units within the Hueco Basin: La Mesa, eolian analogs of the Jornada (I and II), Isaacks{\textquoteright} Ranch, and Organ deposits, and lastly, the Historic Blowsand deposit.  These sediments contain the same morphologic features and have similar radiocarbon ages as sediments along adjacent alluvial fans, indicating that these eolian sediments are time correlative to the extensively-studied deposits along the alluvial fans in the adjacent Desert Project.  Morphologic features, isotopic and pollen studies, as well as radiocarbon dates, suggest that the stratigraphy of both types of sediments are controlled by alternating periods of erosion and deposition, which are primarily driven by climatic fluctuations.  However, stratigraphic differences along intrabasinal faults suggest some additional local tectonic controls.  Understanding the late Quaternary stratigraphy within these basins is crucial for future neotectonic studies.  Evidence for seismic activity possibly as recently as the late Pleistocene or early Holocene was found in the form of seismic-induced liquefaction features and fault-related offset of units.},
	keywords = {book, books, chapter, chapters, eolian stratigraphy, fault depressions, eolian stratigraphy, geology, Hueco Basin, quaternary geology, report, reports, soil, geomorphology, stratigraphy, Hueco Basin, stratigraphy, Tularosa Basin},
	author = {B. J. Buck and Kipp, J. and Curtis H. Monger},
	editor = {Greg H. Mack}
}
