Mancos shale literature review on the Colorado Plateau
By: Inma Lebron, David Chandler, and Lynn Jackson ; Bureau of Land Management, Moab
Contributors: Chandler, David; Jackson, Lynn; Utah State University; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Moab Field Office
Publisher: Utah State University; [Bureau of Land Management, Moab Field Office]
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Moab, Utah]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Ecological disturbances; Revegetation; Reclamation of land; Restoration ecology; Formations (Geology); Soils; Salts in Soils; Stratigraphic Geology
Notes: "This literature review has been prepared by Utah State University for the Bureau of Land Management under Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Agreement Number JSA041003"--Intro.

The hard copy is an annotated review of 125 references on research and studies conducted on the Mancos Shale or similar types of saline, fine-grained soils on the Colorado Plateau and the Western U.S.  Several of the full text articles are available as PDF files on the CD (indicated by PDF notation after the year in the hard copy reference).  The CD also contains an extended review of about 800 related references in EndNote format, and a Word file of the hard copy report.

CD available only by request to Library Staff. Files available to staff  in x:\eos\shared\BLM PUBLICATIONS INFO\MANCOS SHALE CD FILES
Table of contents: title: Salinity / Selenium / Geochemistry; title: Soils / Erosion / Sedimentation; title: Disturbance; title: Dust / Wind; title: Reclamation / Restoration; title: Vegetation / Soil crust / Invasive species.