Topography being a pedogenic factor influences the physico-chemical and biological properties of soil profiles. Besides, magnetic characteristics profiles may also be varied, as iron minerals in soils are strongly redox sensitive. However, hardly any study has been reported from topographic implication on to date. Hence, present aims delineate influence topography in-situ developed hill by stud...

Pedological studies in thick sedimentary sequences are generally limited to the upper few meters. Field investigation of thick (~50 m) sand deposits on an emergent Pleistocene marine terrace in central California showed morphological differences between the solum at the surface and the deep regolith. Based on morphological and geochemical features, four units were identified within the regolith...

Chinese loess provides the most detailed terrestrial records of paleoclimate changes. We employed grain-size components aeolian sediments to reconstruct history East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) on Loess Plateau (CLP). Here, using class vs. standard deviation method, we extracted environmentally sensitive nine last glacial sections. The diagrams showed two major (fine and coarse), which varied f...

Soil science is a relatively new discipline which has mainly developed since the 1880s. It uses terms, methods and processes borrowed from other basic disciplines like climatology, geology, chemistry, physics and biology, but with a direct application to soils. At present, it is difficult to speak about one single science but as soil sciences, as they cover several fields including: pedology (o...