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STRATIGRAPHIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES AS RELATED TO SOIL MANTLES
- Date Issued:
- 1980
- Summary:
- Soil stratigraphy concerns the chronological ordering of pedological episodes. It therefore has important implications in the reconstruction of paleoenvironments and the interpretation of stratigraphic sequences where soils and weathering zones occur. Because of the lateral variation in soil mantles, the principles of soil stratigraphy involve some different considerations from those of rock stratigraphy. Researchers in North America, Europe, and Australia, conditioned by different landscapes and soils, have studied soil mantles using diffrent approaches. Soil-stratigraphic units such as geosols, pedoderms, soil facies, and paleocatenas emphasize the geographic extent of phases of soil formation taking into account local variations within soil mantles. Understanding of episodic development in the pedosphere is tied to concepts of separate identity, lateral continuity, ascendancy and descendancy, and pedogenic persistence. Providing a basis for soil-stratigraphic studies, these concepts are used in the stratigraphic ordering of soils after proofs of existence have been established for independent (buried) soil layers. Correlation of'soil-stratigraphic units withIsO stages in the oceanic record refines incomplete sequences recognized on land.
Title: | STRATIGRAPHIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES AS RELATED TO SOIL MANTLES. |
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Name(s): | Charles W. Finkl | |
Type of Resource: | text | |
Date Issued: | 1980 | |
Publisher: | Elsevier | |
Physical Form: | ||
Extent: | 26 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | Soil stratigraphy concerns the chronological ordering of pedological episodes. It therefore has important implications in the reconstruction of paleoenvironments and the interpretation of stratigraphic sequences where soils and weathering zones occur. Because of the lateral variation in soil mantles, the principles of soil stratigraphy involve some different considerations from those of rock stratigraphy. Researchers in North America, Europe, and Australia, conditioned by different landscapes and soils, have studied soil mantles using diffrent approaches. Soil-stratigraphic units such as geosols, pedoderms, soil facies, and paleocatenas emphasize the geographic extent of phases of soil formation taking into account local variations within soil mantles. Understanding of episodic development in the pedosphere is tied to concepts of separate identity, lateral continuity, ascendancy and descendancy, and pedogenic persistence. Providing a basis for soil-stratigraphic studies, these concepts are used in the stratigraphic ordering of soils after proofs of existence have been established for independent (buried) soil layers. Correlation of'soil-stratigraphic units withIsO stages in the oceanic record refines incomplete sequences recognized on land. | |
Identifier: | FAUIR000484 (IID) | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000484 | |
Host Institution: | FAU |