Problems of recognition
After burial, soil fossils tend to be altered by various chemical and physical processes. These include: * Decomposition of organic matter that was once present in the old soil. This hinders the recognition ofClassification
Soil fossils are usually classified byRecords of the various soil groups
During theReferences
* Retallack, Gregory John; ''Soils of the past: An introduction to paleopedology,'' (2nd edition), 2001, Blackwell Science; Malden, Massachusetts.