Abstract
Soil micromorphology, involving the examination of thin sections of soils under a polarizing microscope, provides important and unique information that can aid in the identification of buried soils and also their interpretation in terms of pedogenic processes and environmental controls. Furthermore, micromorphological features in microstratigraphic association may be used to reconstruct changes in environmental controls, such as from a temperate to periglacial conditions. Interpretation of depth functions of type, abundance, and microstratigraphic relations of micromorphological features throughout pedocomplexes and alluvial, colluvial, or eolian sequences containing paleosols allows the identification of levels or zones marking changes in balances and/or forms of inferred pedogenic and sedimentary processes. These then provide the basis for the reconstruction of landscape evolution in terms of a series of pedosedimentary stages that can be linked to environmental changes.
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