Soil formed during an earlier period of pedogenesis, and which may have been buried, buried and exhumed, or continuously present on the landscape until the current period of pedogenesis.
Geography
A soil exhibiting features which reflect past conditions and processes. The presence of a palaeosol may have palaeoclimatic significance; see Chlachula et al. (2004) Boreas 33, 2 for example, on using loess-palaeosols in southern Siberia.