paleosol

Also known as palaeosol

thumb|right|upright=1.35|Paleosols sequence, Tuscany, Italy thumb|Etched section of paleosol from the Atlantic, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, indicating the top of the [[Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation (limestone)]]

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Properties
Taxonomic classification
Identification
Soil types
Entisol (incipient soil)
Inceptisol (young soil)
Andisol (volcanic ash soil)
Histosol (peaty soil)
Spodosol (forest soil)
Alfisol (fertile forest soil)
Ultisol (base-poor forest soil)
Oxisol (tropical deeply-weathered soil)
Vertisol (swelling clay soil)
Mollisol (grassland soil)
Aridisol (desert soil)
Gelisol (permafrost soil)
Applications
Paleoclimate reconstructions
Paleoatmosphere reconstructions
Paleobotany
Paleoseismology
See also
References
External links

In geoscience, paleosol (palaeosol in Great Britain and Australia) is an ancient soil that formed in the past. The definition of the term in geology and paleontology is slightly different from its use in soil science.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “paleosol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.