High Plains

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DW Woodham, RG Reeves, RR Edwards. Total toxic aldicarb residues in weeds, grasses, and wildlife from the Texas high plains following a soil treatment with the insecticide. J Agric Food Chem 21 604-607, 1973. 

Jones, O.R., S.J. Smith, L.M. Southwick, and A.N. Sharpley (1995). Environmental impacts of dryland residue management systems in the southern high plains. J. Environ. Qual., 24 453 -60. 

During the summer of 1997, water samples were collected and analyzed for herbicides from 32 Playa Lakes of the High Plains that receive drainage from both cotton and corn agriculture in West Texas (Figure 30.1). The major cotton herbicides detected in the water samples were diuron, fluometuron, metolachlor, norflurazon, and prometryn. Atrazine and propazine also were routinely detected in samples from the Playa Lakes. 

In a study of Playa Lakes in the High Plains of Texas (Thurman et al., 2000), atrazine was detected in 72% of the samples (mean concentration of 1.3 pig/L), and propazine was detected in 59% of the samples. The common degradation product, DEA (Figure 30.12), was found in 63% of the samples with a mean concentration of 0.36 pig/L. Atrazine was responsible for the majority of DEA. 

Thurman, E.M., K.C. Bastian, and Tony Mollhagan (2000). Occurrence of cotton herbicides and insecticides in Playa Lakes of the high plains of west Texas. Sci. Total Environ., 248 189-200. 

Rogers, C.E. and Serda, J.G., Cylindrocopturus adspersus in sunflower overwintering and emergence patterns on the Texas high plains, Environ. Entomol., 11, 154-156, 1982. 

Childers, R. E., and Baker, R. V., Effect of Moisture Conditioning on Ginning Performance and Fiber Quality of High Plains Cotton, Trans. ASAE (1978), 1 (2), 379-384. 

Dissolution of evaporite minerals in sedimentary basins is also a common cause of salinization. This type of salinization occurs in the Ogallala Formation in the Southern High Plains, Texas, USA (Mehta et al, 2000a,b), the Dammam aquifer in Kuwait (Al-Ruwaih, 1995), the Nubian sandstone aquifer in the Sinai and Negev (Rosenthal et al., 1998), and the Great Artesian Basin in... 

Mehta S., Fryar A. E., and Banner J. L. (2000a) Controls on the regional-scale sahnization of the Ogallala aquifer, Southern High Plains, Texas. Appl. Geochem. 15, 849—864. 

Mountains and High Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 7153-7169. 

Gustavson, T.C. Holliday, V.T. (1999) Eolian sedimentation and soil development on a semi-arid to subhumid grassland, Tertiary Ogallala and Quaternary Blackwater Draw Formations, Texas and New Mexico High Plains. Journal of Sedimentary Research 69, 622-634. 

Rich, J., Stokes, S., Wood, W. Bailey, R. (2003) Optical dating of tufa via in situ aeolian sand grains a case example from the Southern High Plains, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 1145-1152. 

Wood, W. W., and M. J. Pei raitis. 1984. Origin and distribution of carbon dioxide in Ute unsaturated zone of the southern high plains. Water Re.xources Research 20(9) 1193-208. 

Reeves, J.C.C. (1976) Origin, classification and geologic history of caliche on the southern High Plains, Texas, and eastern New Mexico. J. GeoL, 78, 352-362. 

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