Pedology is the study of soils in their natural environment. It is one of two main branches of soil science , the other being edaphology . Pedology mainly deals with pedogenesis , soil morphology , soil classification . In physical geography pedology is largely studied due to the numerous interactions between climate (water, air, temperature), soil life (micro-organisms, plants, animals), the mineral materials within soils ( biogeochemical cycles ) and its position and effects on the landscape such as laterization . Palaeogeography is a cross-disciplinary study that examines the preserved material in the stratigraphic record in order to determine the distribution of the continents through geologic time. Almost all the evidence for the positions of the continents comes from geology in the form of fossils or paleomagnetism . The use of this data has resulted in evidence for continental drift , plate tectonics and supercontinents . This in turn has supported palaeogeographic theories such as the Wilson cycle .
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