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Buried Soil

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buried soil [′ber·ēd ′sȯil]
(geology)
paleosol
Buried Soil 

(also paleosol), a soil that occurs in loesses, in loess-type rocks, and in alluvial, diluvial, and other beds. Buried soils show interruptions in the process of accumulation and provide data for reconstruction of the geographic conditions at the time of these interruptions. Many types of buried soils have been studied. In the USSR the buried soils in the loesses of the southern European part of the country have been studied in greatest detail.
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Commonly, however, the buried soil is polygenetic, or buried before it was fully developed, or contaminated with material that has been leached or filtered from above, thus altering the characteristics of the original soil and complicating identification, not to mention a paleoclimatic interpretation.
International year of planet earth 4. Utilizing paleosols in ... by Rutter, Nat / Geoscience Canada
If we suppose that shallow water of Ancylus Lake rapidly retreated from islet-like bedrock and till hillocks, the duration of hydromorphic pedogenesis there must have been at least 2000 years until Litorina transgression once again buried soils under a sandy carpet.
Gleysols on sandy deposits of the Litorina Sea underlain by Histosol ... by Reintam, Loit; Moora, Tanel; Raukas, Anto / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
Louis Werner explains how Cisternas and everal colleagues studied samples plucked from buried soil and sand in areas hardest hit by Chilean tremors.
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