Joe wrote:
"Tas Walker has critiqued my discussion on paleosols"
Sound like you hit a very tender nerve. :-)
Maybe someone should prepare a web page on
some famous locations, at which the existence
of numerous paleosols have been exteremely
documented. A couple of examples:
1. Badlands National Park
Retallack, G.J., 1983, Late Eocene and Oligocene
paleosols from Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Geological Society of America Special Paper no. 193,
82 pp.
Retallack, G. J., 1983, A paleopedological approach
to the interpretation sedimentary rocks: the
mid-Tertiary fossil soils of Badlands National
park, South Dakota. Geological Society of America
Bulletin. vol. 94, pp. 824-840
2. John Day Fossil Beds
Bestland, E. A., Retallack, G. J., Rice, A., and
Mindszenty, A., 1996, Late Eocene detrital laterites
in central Oregon: mass balance geochemistry,
depositional setting and landscape evolution.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol 108,
pp. 285-302.
Bestland, E. A., Retallack, G. J., Swisher, C. C.III,
1997, Stepwise climate change recorded in Eocene-
Oligocene paleosol sequences from central Oregon.
The Journal of Geology, vol. 105, pp. 153-178.
Bestland, E.A., 1997, Alluvial terraces and
paleosols as indicators of early Oligocene climatic
change (John Day Formation, central Oregon).
Journal Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 840-855.
Bestland, E. A., Hammond, P. E., Blackwell, D. L. S.,
Kays, M. A., Retallack, G. J., Stimac, J., 1999,
Geologic framework of the Clarno Unit, John Day
Fossil Beds National Monument, central Oregon.
Oregon Geology, v. 61, p.3-19.
Retallack, G.J., Bestland, E.A., Fremd, T., 2000,
Eocene and Oligocene paleosols of central Oregon.
Geological Society of America Special Paper 344. 191p.
A Paleosol Bibliography
http://www.geocities.com/earthhistory/pweathering.htm
Just some thoughts.
Bill Birkeland