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  • Surface abrasion and crust evolution following vegetation removal at the Jornada Basin LTER Scrape Site, 1995 to 2019
  • Gillette, Dale; Jornada Basin LTER
    Okin, Greg; University of California Los Angeles
  • 2019-12-10
  • Gillette, D. and G. Okin. 2019. Surface abrasion and crust evolution following vegetation removal at the Jornada Basin LTER Scrape Site, 1995 to 2019 ver 102. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-27).

  • This data package contains measurements of soil surface abrasion and the evolution of soil crust shear strength following a soil and vegetation removal (scrape) treatment at the Jornada Basin LTER site in southern New Mexico, USA. Soil erosion and soil crust shear strength is measured at 3 locations along the prevailing wind direction across a site initially scraped in 1995 to remove the A soil horizon in a 100 meter radius semicircle. There are three monitoring stations (East, Middle, West) on the Scrape Site. The West site is the windward site, the East site is the leeward site, and the middle site is halfway between the other two. At each location, measurements are taken of the distance of the sand surface and soil crust to a crossbar set into the soil. Three "Torvane" measurements that measure the torque (shear strength) needed to break the crust are also made at each location. These measurements were made monthly until 2014, and are made annually since 2015. The Scrape Site has now become the location for the GROWES study (JRN study IDs 511 and 523). Data collection for this study is ongoing.

  • N: 32.7494871      S: 32.47317259      E: -106.6927163      W: -106.8728831
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  • DOI PLACE HOLDER
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