Micro-Scale Patterns of Organic Matter Decomposition and Storage Within a Buried Paleosol

Elliot Vaughan1, Carsten W Mueller2, Abbygail McMurtry3, Taylor McDowell1, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe4, Marie-Anne De Graaff3, Manisha Dolui4, Joseph A Mason5, Jennifer Pett-Ridge6, Laura Melissa Szymanski1 and Erika Marin-Spiotta1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Technical University of Munich, Soil Science, Freising, Germany, (3)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (4)UC Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States, (6)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States