Soils of the Past: An Introduction to Paleopedology, 2nd Edition

Preface to the First Edition.

Acknowledgments.

Part 1: Soils and Palesols.

1. Paleopedology.

2. Soils and under the landscape.

3. Feature of Fossil Soils.

4. Soil-Forming processes.

5. Soil Classification.

6. Mapping and Naming Palesols.

7. Alteration of Paleosols after burial.

Part 2: Factors in soil formation.

8. Models of Soil Formation.

9. Climate.

Organisms.

11. Topographic relief as a factor.

12. Parent Material as a factor.

13. Time as a Factor.

PART 3: Fossil record of Soils.

14. A long-term natural experiment in pedogenesis.

15. Soils of other worlds.

16. Earth's earliest landscapes.

17. Earl life on land.

18. Large plants and animals o land.

19. Afforestation of the Land.

20. Grasses in Dry continental Interiors.

21. Human Impact on Landscapes.

Glossary.

References.

Index.