Contribution to Book
Use of Soil Maps and Surveys to Interpret Soil-Landform Assemblages and Soil-Landscape Evolution
Geopedology: An Integration of Geomorphology and Pedology for Soil and Landscape Studies
(2016)
Abstract
Soils form in unconsolidated parent materials, which make them a key link to the geologic system that originally deposited the parent material. In young soils, i.e., those that post-date the last glaciation, parent materials can often be easily identified as to type and depositional system. In a GIS, soil map units can then be geospatially tied to parent materials, enabling the user to create maps of surficial geology. We suggest that maps of this kind have a wide variety of applications in the Earth Sciences, and to that end, provide five examples from temperate climate soil-landscapes.
Keywords
- soil surveys,
- soil maps,
- soil parent materials,
- soil geomorphology,
- soil landscapes,
- lithologic discontinuities
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Editor
Zinck, J.A., Metternicht, G., Bocco, G., Del Valle, H.F.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
ISBN
978-3-319-19158-4
Citation Information
Bradley A Miller and Randall J. Schaetzl. "Use of Soil Maps and Surveys to Interpret Soil-Landform Assemblages and Soil-Landscape Evolution" Geopedology: An Integration of Geomorphology and Pedology for Soil and Landscape Studies (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bradley_miller/7/