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Selected Mapsheadline bar  **Vegetation Changes - 1915 to 1998****ArcGIS interactive web app maps with aerial images of Pasture 9 on the Jornada****1936-1999****2000-2008**Vegetation Maps published in the Journal of Arid Environments:Jornada Experimental Range and Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center Grass Cover 1858 (113 KB) - 8.5"x11"Jornada Experimental Range and Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center Shrub Presence 1858 (298 KB) - 8.5"x11"Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center Vegetation Types 1938, 1998 (492 KB) - 8.5"x11"Desert Soils Project, Volume III:Map 1: Topography, Soil Parent Materials, and General Climatic Zones (2,848 KB) - 11"x17"Map 2: The Jornada and Mesilla Basins (159 KB) - 11"x17"Map 3: The Soil Chronology (2,233 KB) - 11"x17"Map 4: Carbonate Stage (2,467 KB) - 11"x17"Map 5: The Mollic Epipedon and Its Analog (1,761 KB) - 11"x17"Map 6: The Argillic Horizon (1,898 KB) - 11"x17"Map 7: The Argillic Horizon and Dominant Carbonate Stage (2,072 KB) - 11"x17"Map 8: General Soil Map  (3,121 KB) - 11"x17"Map 9: Soil Geomorphic Reconstruction: The Soil Chronology at the End of the Pleistocene Full-Glacial, 17,000 Years Ago (1,972 KB) - 11"x17"Map 10:  Soil-Geomorphic Reconstruction: The Argillic Horizon at the End of the Last Pliestocene Full Glacial, 17,000 Years Ago (1,853 KB) - 11"x17"Map 11: Soil-Geomorphic Reconstruction: The Stage of Carbonate Accumulation at the End of the Last Pleistocene Full-Glacial, 17,000 Years Ago (2,803 KB) - 11"x17"Map 12: Constructional Surfaces vs. Structural Benches (549 KB) - 11"x17"Map 13: The Jornada Surface, Deposits of the Ancestral Rio Grande, and Intervening Buried Soils South of Highway 70  (2,262 KB) - 11"x17"Map 14: Coppice Dunes  (1,944 KB) - 11"x17"Sheet 1: The Desert Soil-Geomorphology Project  (7,726 KB) - 34"x44"Sheet 2: Chronology of the Desert Project and Vicinity  (2,799 KB) - 34"x44"Sheet 3: Illustrated Morphological Features  (9,200 KB) - 34"x44"Sheet 4: Some Effects of Human Activities on Eolian Erosion and Deposition: Historical Coppice Dunes  (13,005 KB) - 34"x44"Sheet 5: Soil-Geomorphic Reconstruction: The Soil Chronology, Argillic Horizon, and Stages of Carbonate Accumulation at the End of the Last Pleistocene Full-Glacial, 17,000 Years Ago (7,793 KB) - 34"x44"Sheet 6: Soil-Geomorphic Reconstruction: The Jornada I Surface (Estimated Age: 250,000 to 400,000 Years), Deposits of the Ancestral Rio Grande, and Intervening Buried Soils South of Highway 70  (3,698 KB) - 36"x39.5"Sheet 7: The Detailed Soil Map at Reduced Scale  (6,052 KB) - 36"x45"Jornada Basin LTER Synthesis Volume soils maps:Jornada Experimental Range Soils, 1918 (426 KB) - 8.5"x11"Jornada Experimental Range Soils, 1963 (551 KB) - 8.5"x11"Dona Ana County (NM) Soil Survey (471 KB) - 8.5"x11"Desert Soils Project Map (1,547 KB) - 8.5"x11"Soil Characterization Sites on the Jornada Basin (273 KB) - 8.5"x11"Hydrology Maps:Ecohydrologic Research Sites of the Jornada Basin (213 KB)  - 8.5"x11"   Disclaimer and Legal Statement: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant number DEB-0618210. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or New Mexico State University.


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