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Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada(图)
rock expands soil surface Sierra Nevada
2019/10/18
A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is due more to rocks expanding than to chemical...
Dust contributes valuable nutrients to Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems
Dust contributes valuable nutrients Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems
2017/3/30
But dust from as close as California's Central Valley and as far away as Asia's Gobi Desert provides nutrients, especially phosphorus, to vegetation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a team of scientist...
Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada in 2015 was at the lowest level in the past 500 years, according to a new report led by University of Arizona researchers.
The team’s research is the first to s...
Breccia of Frog Lakes:reconstructing Triassic volcanism and subduction initiation in the east-central Sierra Nevada, California
Subduction Initiation Sierran Magmatic Arc Saddlebag Lake Pendant,
2015/1/16
The Antler and Sonoma orogenies occurred along the southwest-trending passive Pacific margin of North America during the Paleozoic concluding with the accretion of the McCloud Arc. A southeast-trendin...
Degradation of buried ice and permafrost in the Veleta cirque (Sierra Nevada, Spain) from 2006 to 2013 as a response to recent climate trends
Veleta cirque du soleil the sierra Nevada mountains national park the quaternary cold ice age the glacier
2015/1/6
The Veleta cirque is located at the foot of the Veleta peak, one of the highest summits of the Sierra Nevada National Park (southern Spain). This cirque was the source of a glacier valley during the Q...
"Microbiome" of Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs shifts during infectious disease outbreaks(图)
Microbiome yellow-legged frogs
2014/12/1
The following is part eleven in a series on the NSF-NIH-USDA Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) Program. See parts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10.
Research shows declining levels of acidity in Sierra Nevada lakes
Sierra Nevada lakes declining levels
2014/9/12
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — California’s water supply depends on a clean snow pack and healthy mountain lakes. The lakes receive a large amount of runoff in the spring from the melting snowpack. If the snow...
Sierra Nevada freshwater runoff could drop 26 percent by 2100, UC study finds(图)
UC Sierra Nevada freshwater runoff
2014/9/12
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 2, 2014 — Freshwater runoff from the Sierra Nevada may decrease by as much as one-quarter by 2100 due to climate warming on the high slopes, according to scientists at UC Irvine ...
Research finds human impact may cause Sierra Nevada to rise, increase seismicity of San Andreas Fault
Research finds human impact Sierra Nevada to rise increase seismicity San Andreas Fault
2014/6/12
Like a detective story with twists and turns in the plot, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are unfolding a story about the rapid uplift of the famous 400-mile long Sierra Nevada mountain r...
Influence of lithology on hillslope morphology and response to tectonic forcing in the northern Sierra Nevada of California
Influence of lithology hillslope morphology response to tectonic forcing the northern Sierra Nevada of California
2014/5/20
Many geomorphic studies assume that bedrock geology is not a first-order control on landscape form in order to isolate drivers of geomorphic change (e.g., climate or tectonics). Yet underlying geology...
The Impact of Cattle Grazing in High Elevation Sierra Nevada Mountain Meadows over Widely Variable Annual Climatic Conditions
Water Quality Sierra Nevada, Mountain Meadows Livestock Grazing Cattle, Indicator Bacteria
2013/3/11
The impact of summer cattle grazing on water quality during three very different climatic years in the Sierra Nevada was investigated. Water year 2009 had near normal precipitation; 2010 had late prec...
Measured black carbon deposition on the Sierra Nevada snow pack and implication for snow pack retreat
black carbon deposition the Sierra Nevada snow pack snow pack retreat
2010/8/16
Modeling studies show that the darkening of snow and ice by black carbon deposition is a major factor for the rapid disappearance of arctic sea ice, mountain glaciers and snow packs. This study provid...
Evaporation from Snow in the Central Sierra Nevada of California
Evaporation from Snow Central Sierra Nevada California
2009/10/23
Evaporation from snow was calculated with the mean-profile method using
single-level meteorological data at eight locations representing a variety of alpine
and sub-alpine terrain in the central Sie...
Observations of NOx, $§igma$PNs, $§igma$ANs, and HNO3 at a Rural Site in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains: summertime diurnal cycles
NOx HNO3 California Sierra Nevada Mountains summertime diurnal cycles
2009/7/23
Observations of NO, NO2, total peroxy nitrates (ΣPNs), total alkyl nitrates (ΣANs), HNO3, CO, O3, and meteorological parameters were obtained from October 2000 through February 2002 at 1315 m a.s.l., ...
Mercury concentrations and pools in four Sierra Nevada forest sites,and relationships to organic carbon and nitrogen
Mercury concentrations pools Sierra Nevada forest sites organic carbon nitrogen
2010/1/20
This study presents data on mercury (Hg) concentrations, stochiometric relations to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), and Hg pool sizes in four Sierra Nevada forest sites of similar exposure and precipitat...