| At another site, near where a donkey was hiding in the shade, Xenna found a paleosol with charcoal and huge numbers of bones. |
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| The tephra above the paleosol is the Dawson Tephra, which is about 24,000 years old. |
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| The precipitation level of a past climate might be inferred from an observation of the depth of lime-containing horizons in a paleosol. |
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| Thus, there is no indisputable diagnostic evidence in the photograph to support Meert's claim that the unconsolidated material is a well developed paleosol. |
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| In fact, the whole paleosol methodology assumes the uniformitarian paradigm and is geared to interpret paleosols throughout the stratigraphic record. |
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| Given a knowledge of the clay mineral in a suspected paleosol, and assuming the precipitation-clay mineralogy relationship described above, pedologists might be able to infer past climate. |
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