SOIL SCIENCE 100

Chinese Paleosol
Chinese Paleosol	This is another view of a paleosol. Erosion has exposed the stratigraphy in this nearly vertical cliff. The overlying buff colored loess (wind-blown silt) covers a red paleosol. Below the paleosol is more loess. The paleosol was once at the earth's surface. It formed by the same processes that form modern soils. Subsequently, additional loess buried the soil and it became a paleosol. Paleosols are valuable because they can help us to reconstruct past climates.

Chinese Paleosol

This is another view of a paleosol. Erosion has exposed the stratigraphy in this nearly vertical cliff. The overlying buff colored loess (wind-blown silt) covers a red paleosol. Below the paleosol is more loess. The paleosol was once at the earth's surface. It formed by the same processes that form modern soils. Subsequently, additional loess buried the soil and it became a paleosol. Paleosols are valuable because they can help us to reconstruct past climates.

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