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The Soil Laboratory at the
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Department of
Geography and Earth Science functions primarily as a teaching laboratory,
but also supports undergraduate research and faculty research projects. In
addition the Soil Laboratory also supports work carried out by the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center.
The Soil Laboratory is well equipped
for carrying out a variety of physical and chemical soil analyses, including
particle size analysis, soil texture determinations, bulk density, soil
moisture content, pH, total carbon,
organic carbon, carbonates, total
nitrogen, organic materials, and magnetic susceptibility..
The soil laboratory also has
equipment for soil field work that includes, in addition to the basic
equipment, manual and powered coring devices, a magnetic susceptibility meter,
and a ground conductivity meter.
Courses Supported by the Soil Laboratory:
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GEO/ESC 426: Soil
Morphology and Genesis
Undergraduate Research Projects Supported by the Soil
Laboratory:
The following papers have been presented
at the
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Beauchaine,
Anthony J. and Werdemann, Elizabeth. 2006.
Using Ground
Conductivity as a Geophysical Survey Technique to Locate Potential
Archaeological Sites in the Bad Axe River Valley of Western Wisconsin. UWL
Journal of Undergraduate Research IX.
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Ketterhagen,
Lynne. 2006. Prehistoric Clay Sources: A
Forensic Exercise in Geoarchaeology. UWL Journal of Undergraduate
Research IX.
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Annen, Amy.
2002. Morphology of Drumlins: A Comparative
Analysis of Selected Drumlin Fields in North America. UWL Journal
of Undergraduate Research V.
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Hamilton, Joseph
S.2002. An
Archaeological and Geomorphological Perspective of the Solverson Site
(47VE1252),Vernon County, Wisconsin.
UWL Journal of Undergraduate Research V.
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Schultz,
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Leith, Luther.
2001. Identification and Analysis of a Buried
Prairie Soul at the Ernie Bank Archaeological Site, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
UWL Journal of Undergraduate Research IV. (This paper was also
presented at the 2002 National Conference on Undergraduate Research,
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Newman, Tiffany
L. 2001. Site Formation Processes of the Gail Stone
Archaeological Site (47TR351) in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. UWL
Journal of Undergraduate Research IV.
The
following papers have been presented at the
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Mandy Georgeff,
Sara Miller, Mindi Okon. 2004. A Stratigraphic Sequence of Events in the
Formation of a
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Jonathan Baker.
2001. A Micromorphological Soil Analysis of Feature 20 from the Sanford
Archaeological District, Locality 15 (oral presentation).