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Use of Soil Maps to Interpret Soil-Landform Assemblages and Soil-Landscape Evolution

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Soils are a key link to the surficial sedimentologic system(s) that originally deposited the unconsolidated parent material, or to the weathering system that formed the residual parent material. In young soils, i.e., those formed since the end of the Pleistocene, parent materials can often be identified as to type, enabling accurate links to their past depositional system(s). On older landscapes, determining the origin(s) of the soil parent material is more challenging. Accurately determining the origin of a soil parent material is also important because soil properties – tied to the parent material – are frequently part of map** unit attributes for regional and local scale maps. Examining soil maps in a geographic information system (GIS) helps to broadly associate soil types with 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 six examples from temperate climate soil-landscapes.

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

    B. A. Miller

  2. Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    C. J. Baish & R. J. Schaetzl

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  1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Joseph Alfred Zinck

  2. School of Science, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia

    Graciela Metternicht

  3. Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología (FCyT) Centre. Centro Regional de Geomática, Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (UADER), Paraná-Oro Verde, Entre Rios, Argentina

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Miller, B.A., Baish, C.J., Schaetzl, R.J. (2023). Use of Soil Maps to Interpret Soil-Landform Assemblages and Soil-Landscape Evolution. In: Zinck, J.A., Metternicht, G., del Valle, H.F., Angelini, M. (eds) Geopedology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20667-2_13

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