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    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...
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    oldest of the Alfisol paleosol forest soils are in the paleosols of the Aztec Siltstone in Victoria Land, Antarctica. In the paleosols of the Aztec Siltstone...
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    billion years old. The "problematic" fossil Diskagma has been found in paleosols 2.2 billion years old. Structures proposed to represent "large colonial...
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    of problematic fossil from a Paleoproterozoic (2200 million years old) paleosol from South Africa, and significant as the oldest likely eukaryote and earliest...
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    more likely is sedimentary silcrete that is being formed in an ancient paleosol in the Ogallala formation.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors...
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    isolated ponds. The climate was hot and monsoonal, preserving a variety of paleosols and plant assemblages ranging from dry upland forests to moist riverside...
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    sediments are preserved as paleosols (fossilized soil), of which there were eight varieties, labelled A through H. Type A paleosols are sandy soils rich in...
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  • geologic record is called a paleosol, material formed in the distant past on what was then the surface. A relict paleosol is still found on the surface...
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    activity and other mechanical disturbances. Fossil soil horizons from paleosols can be found within sedimentary rock sequences, allowing the study of...
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    (2013). "Problematic urn-shaped fossils from a Paleoproterozoic (2.2 Ga) paleosol in South Africa". Precambrian Research. 235: 71–87. Bibcode:2013PreR..235...
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    referred to as "kurkar", intercalated with red-coloured fine grained paleosols, referred to as "hamra". The three ridges are separated by wadis, which...
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    published since then, focusing on the formation of loesses and on loess/paleosol (older soil buried under deposits) sequences as the archives of climate...
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    pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess–paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology...
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    multiple layers of loess separated by multiple well-defined calcrete paleosols and erosional unconformities. The degree of development of individual...
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    African cave paradigm – Australopithecus africanus from Plio-Pleistocene paleosol deposits at Taung" (PDF). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 151...
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  • sample determines parameters as directions of paleocurrents, maturity of paleosol, flow direction of magma injection, tectonic strain, etc. It is a non-destructive...
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    formations show numerous paleosol (fossil soil) beds. For example, the Willwood Formation of Wyoming contains over 1,000 paleosol layers in a 770 meters...
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  • Pre-Illinoian tills of the Banner Formation, in which the Yarmouth Soil (paleosol) has developed. In this exposure, the Illinoian Glasford Formation, in...
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    and fused together into a limestone sandstone), and are laced by red paleosols, also referred to as geosols or terra rossas, indicative of Saharan atmospheric...
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    concentrated around the last watering holes, causing bone beds to form. The brown paleosol in which the horned dinosaurs were found – a mixture of clay and coalified...
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    Wen, Xing-Yue (January 2022). "Middle Jurassic climate oscillations from paleosol records of the Sichuan Basin, SW China". Journal of Palaeogeography. 11...
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    "Equatorial Aridity in Western Pangea: Lower Permian Loessite and Dolomitic Paleosols in Northeastern New Mexico, U.S.A." Journal of Sedimentary Research. 15...
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    "seatearth" or "underclay", typically either consists of or contains a paleosol. Paleosols are soils which were formed by subaerial weathering during periods...
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    with rivers and streams), and in aeolian conditions (effected by wind). Paleosols (buried soil), siltstones, and claystones are present, some of which represent...
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    uniformly red coloration and comprises paleosol horizons, which deposit in cyclically shallow-water and dry area. The paleosol horizons are highly variable in...
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    features such as geodes, chemical nodules, impressions of raindrops, and paleosols (fossil soils) are commonly found in this formation as well. Vertebrate...
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    before the Holocene epoch, often involving fossils and pollen (palynology). Paleosol – Soil buried under sediment or not representative of current environmental...
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  • Across the Chinese Loess Plateau Revealed by High Resolution Records of Paleosol Carbonate and Occluded Organic Matter". Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology...
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  • soil or a paleosol is invariable non-imbricated and follows (mimics) the surface topography of the soil, or the paleosurface of a paleosol. This is strong...
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    Ages, Sea Levels, and Climate Change, retrieved 2021-11-28, The lower paleosol interval of the Eskridge is characterized by the spectacular development...
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