Paleopedology and stratigraphy on the Condrusian peneplain (Belgium) : with a reconstruction of a paleosol

Fossil soil remnants on the Condrusian peneplain and in its surroundings were described and, if possible, dated. These soils are mainly of Tertiary age. In this way a number of important remnants of fossil soils were classified: the flint eluvium, that was formed during the Paleocene and Eocene; the Neerrepen soil from the Lower Oligocene; the Boncelles 1 and 2 soils from the Upper Oligocene; the Boncelles 3 soil and the Andenne soil, that developed during the Lower and Middle Miocene; a Middle Miocene root horizon; the Onx soil that was formed during Upper Miocene-Pliocene and the Bolderberg... Mehr ...