This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A previously unstudied Sangamon paleosol was examined in Brown County, Kansas, to determine its characteristics and geographic distribution.

The first life on land may not have dramatically stepped forth from the ocean to boldly claim the soil. Maybe, instead, it was left high and dry when its lake evaporated. Regardless of how life became ...

Earth’s oldest soil could be tucked away in an ancient rock outcrop in Greenland, according to new research. Dating back some 3.7 billion years, the suspected soil—exposed underneath a retreating ice ...

A paleosol on the island of Gran Canaria, sandwiched between basalt flows dated to 3.0-2.9 million years ago -- to the Pliocene.

SMU paleontologist Timothy S. Myers collected this plastic bag of paleosol matrix in the field. Myers performed chemical analysis of the ancient soil by grinding it to a powder, which is then fused ...