„Soils in modern and past landscapes”, Toruń/Poland 2014
Main Organizer: Michal Jankowski
Topics: Soil genesis, paleopedology, soil geography, pedoarchaeology, soil classification
Program:
1st day
Opening session, plenary session, oral presentations, poster presentations
„Get gothic” – the Old Town tour (optional presentation of soils forming on buldings: Edifisols)
Conference dinner in a gothic cellar
2nd day
Oral presentations, poster sessions
Meeting at the fire – (optional presentation of soils formed on fortifications: Constructosols)
3rd and 4th day
Field sessions:
A – Soils on glaciofluvial terraces in the Toruń Basin
Rusty soil (Brunic Arenosol), neo-relictic Gleyic Podzol, Mucky soil (Umbric Gleysol), Ochre soil
(Rubic Arenosol)
B – Contemporary and buried soils in dunes of the Toruń Basin
Alleröd soil paleo-catena (Katarzynka), contemporary Arenosols and sequence of buried soils
(Rudak), lateral podzolization (Chorągiewka)
Optionally: Gąski archaeological site (?)
C – Soils in young glacial landscapes (The Brodnickie Lakeland)
Eroded Luvisol, lithologically heterogenous Luvisols (2 profiles), Histosols (undrained and drained)
and soils developed from limnic deposits (3 profiles)