Echo-Soil

The European Framework for Soil Heritage - www.echosoil.khk.be The soils we live on have a unique capacity to reflect the events under which they formed.

Scientists call this the 'soil memory': from studying the soil, we can learn about climate change, vegetation development,but also about the traces man has left in the soil: ranging form ancient camp sites to city walls and from ploughmarks to former land-uses. The last decades however, man started disturbing the soil at a scale and pace never before. Europe's soil memory is rapidy vanishing. Lack  ...