Beschreibung:
Soils and paleosols. Paleopedology -- Soils on and under the landscape -- Features of fossil soils -- Soil-forming processes -- Soil classification -- Mapping and naming paleosols -- Alteration of paleosols after burial -- Factors in soil formation. Models of soil formation -- Climate -- Organisms -- Topographic relief as a factor -- Parent material as a factor -- Time as a factor -- Fossil record of soils. A long term natural experiment in pedogenesis -- Soils of other worlds -- Earth`s earliest landscapes -- Early life on land -- Large plants and animals on land -- Afforestation of the land -- Grasses in dry continental interiors -- Human impact on landscapes.