Examples of relict features inherited from various earlier periods of different climate (ranging from Tertiary to early Holocene) are described from surface soils in central and north-west Europe. Special emphasis is placed on stratigraphic evidence
This review emphasizes the stratigraphic and spatial implications of paleosols to Quaternary research. A brief history of the evolution of soil geomorphology is presented. Details from two earlier investigations in the state of Iowa and one from