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paleosol
[ pey-lee-uh-sawl, -solor, especially British, pal-ee-uh- ]
noun
- a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
paleosol
/ ′ŧ-ə-ô′ /
- A soil horizon from the geologic past, usually buried beneath other rocks or recent soil horizons.
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He’s back this year to sample that thicker dark layer of paleosol.
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At another site, near where a donkey was hiding in the shade, Xenna found a paleosol with charcoal and huge numbers of bones.
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Xenna sampling for charcoal in the first really clear paleosol that we found.
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In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits.
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There are a series of terraces near the Asano archaeology site that have the same stratigraphy — loess with a paleosol on top of it and then flow deposits above that.
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