Reading the Soil Archives
Unraveling the Geoecological Code of Palaeosols and Sediment Cores
- 1st Edition, Volume 18 - November 25, 2019
- Editors: Jan M. Van Mourik, Jaap van der Meer
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 1 0 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 1 0 9 - 0
Reading the Soil Archives: Unraveling the Geoecological Code of Palaeosols and Sediment Cores, Volume 19, provides details of new techniques for understanding geological history i… Read more
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Request a sales quoteReading the Soil Archives: Unraveling the Geoecological Code of Palaeosols and Sediment Cores, Volume 19, provides details of new techniques for understanding geological history in the form of quantitative pollen analyses, soil micromorphology, OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) dating, phytolith analysis and biomarker analysis. The book presents the genesis of a cultural landscape, based on multi-proxy analysis of paleosoils and integration of geomorphological, pedological and archaeological research results, which can be a model for geoecological landscape studies. Beginning with analytical methods for interpreting soil archives, the book examines methods for reconstructing the landscape genesis.
The book presents strengths and weaknesses of applications, especially in relation to the data from case studies in the Netherlands. The final chapter of the book addresses landscape evolution in different cultural periods. This book offers an integrated approach to geoecological knowledge that is valuable to students and professionals in quaternary science, physical geography, soil science, archaeology, historical geography, and land planning and restructuring.
- Covers techniques including soil pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, OSL-dating, phytolith analysis, biomarker analysis, archaeological analysis and GIS
- Provides a case study of results applied in the reconstruction of landscape evolution of SE-Netherlands
- Includes color illustrations, such as microscopic pictures, pictures of landscapes and soil profiles, pollen diagrams and dating graph
1. Soil pollen analysis: Pollen infiltration and conservation in soils (J.v.Mouik)
Distinction sin/post sedimentary pollen in sediments and soils
Description of pollen preserving micro-environments
Association between pollen spectra and micro-environment
Soil pollen spectra as geo-ecological fingerprints
2. Soil micromorphology (J.v.Mourik, H.J. Mücher)
micromorphological characteristics (skeleton, plasma, voids) of soil horizons
distribution and composition of soil organic matter
3. Radiocarbon dating of soil organic carbon (J.v.d.Plicht)
The measurement of 14C from several sedimentary environments
Interpretation of the 14C measurements
The added value of d 13C
4. OSL dating of sand (J. Wallinga)
OSL dating of aeolian sediments
OSL dating of fluvial sediments
5. Phytolith analysis (C. Mc Michael)
Phytolith analysis of palaeosols
Phytolith analysis in archaeological context
6. Biomarkers of palaeosols (B. Jansen, J.v.Mourik)
Biomarkers from plant tissue
Biomarkers from soil
Match between biomarkers and pollen
7. Archaeometrical analysis of palaeosols (R.Jansen, D.Braekmans, M.Doorenbosch)
Archaeometrical dating of palaeosols (XRF)
Provenance analysis
8. A case study of the reconstruction of the development of the cultural landscape in the SE-Netherlands, based on the analysis of soil archives. (J.v.Mourik, R. Jansen, M. Doorenbosch)
Reconstruction of the evolution of the prehistoric cultural landscape on aeolian sands in SE Netherlands during the Late Subboreal and Early Subatlantic
Reconstruction of the evolution of the historic cultural landscape on aeolian sands in SE Netherlands since the Middle Ages
Soil formation in chemical poor sandy substrates
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 18
- Published: November 25, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444641083
- eBook ISBN: 9780444641090
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