Abstract
A classification of controls of chemical elements transport is elaborated for the case of copper sulfides in alluvial fan, gravel veneer, valley flat, and lake-swamp complexes in piedmont and peneplain regions. The emphasis is placed upon topographic profile notch areas in which the energy of the water drained from the upland falls below the value at which gravel and boulders can be transported, but the finer materials remain in suspension, and various complexes in solution. The topographic feature, with its surface and ground water relationships, its soil profile, and its vegetation, is defined as an elementary environment. A classification of elementary environment is then elaborated for the purpose of mapping the geomorphologic, pedologic, hydrologic, plant-ecologic ; and to a minor extent, lithologic controls of atomic and ionic transport. The soil profile, the geomorphologic properties of the topographic feature, and the vegetation cover are the objects of especially strong emphasis.—M. E. Burgunker.
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