Loess-paleosol sequences are the most intensively studied terrestrial archives used for reconstruction of Late Pleistocene environmental and climatic changes in Azov Sea region, southwest Russia. Here we present a refined chronostratigraphy multiproxy record dynamics complete representative loess–paleosol (Beglitsa Chumbur-Kosa sections) from region. We propose new following Chinese Danubean lo...

The study of paleosols can be a vital tool in the paleoenvironmental interpretation of continental deposits because their physical and chemical characteristics are a reflection of variations in aspects of soil formation. Changes in paleosol characteristics can be used to determine the architecture and nature of parent material, paleosol maturity, topography, climate and soil-forming organisms (...

Soil hydrology provides important background for understanding the fate of organic carbon (OC) buried by geomorphic processes as well influence runoff, infiltration, and plant root uptake on long-term erosion landscape evolution. We modeled a 4.5-m loess-paleosol sequence an eroding tableland in U.S. central Great Plains using Hydrus 1D, numerical unsaturated flow model, parameterized with high...

The relationships between pedogenetic processes and fluvial-coastal dynamics in the Po Plain have been reconstructed through sedimentological analysis correlation of ca. 170 core data chronologically constrained by 376 radiocarbon dates. Vertically stacked, weakly developed paleosols within Upper Pleistocene Holocene mud-prone strata testify to intermittent pedogenesis, periodically interrupted...

The Trout Valley Formation of Emsian–Eifelian age in Baxter State Park, Maine, consists of fl uvial and coastal deposits that preserve early land plants (embryophytes). Seven facies are recognized and represent deposits of main river channels (Facies 1, 2), fl ood basin (Facies 4), storm-infl uenced nearshore shelf bars (Facies 3), a paleosol (Facies 5), and tidal fl ats and channels (Facies 6,...

The Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary Maghra El-Bahari Formation at Gabal Ataqa and Gabal Shabrawet in the northeastern portion of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is subdivided into two informal lithostratigraphic parts: lower and upper. The lower part has common features of alluvial floodplain-dominated deposits with occasional occurrences of crevasse splay deposits. The upper part has sediments typ...

Stable carbon isotopic analyses of organic carbon (d13C) in individual paleosol profiles from Permian–Triassic sequences of Antarctica reveal systematic isotopic variations with profile depth. These variations are in many cases analogous to those in modern soils, which are functions of redox conditions, soil development, and degree and type of microbial decay. In modern soils, these isotopic de...