Typical Soil Accumulation Rates (and Explorer II)

[moss]

Hi,

I am interested in hunting for older objects such as medieval weapons, etc. (in Japan/Europe).

Has anyone seen a chart for typical soil accumulation rates under varried conditions?

For example- How much soil would accumulate in the span of 500 years, in a forest?

Obviously rainfall, broadleaf versus coniferous foliage, and other geological factors will alter those rates- however I think there must be some basic equation- Perhaps something found in an archaeology book somewhere?

There is a big difference in one inch every hundred years, and 2.
I dont know how useful an Explorer II would be in searching for items so dated. ^_^

If anybody has some ideas, thanks ahead of time.

Brian.

 

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[Magnumto]

Hello Brian,

I did some looking around and found that in general, so many factors influence soil accumulation rates that such rates are pretty much site-specific. Nevertheless, here's a link that sheds some light on the subject:

http://www.grisda.org/origins/15019.htm

To find this, I googled the following: "soil profile" age

HH,
Frank