abstracts

LIST OF ABSTRACTS OF THE IV INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND FIELD WORKSHOP ON PALEOPEDOLOGY “Paleosols and Climatic Change”
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THE DIVERSITY OF SOILS ON THE DATED HOLOCENE LANDSURFACES ON DIFFERENT PARENT MATERIALS:TOWARD UNDERSTANDING OF RESPONSE OF SOIL SYSTEMS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Alexander L. Alexandrovskiy

Institute of Geography of RAS, 109017, Staromonetnyi per. 29, Moscow, Russia

Tel. (095)-959-00-28; FAX (095)-959-00-33; E-mail: alexandr@geosoil.msk.ru

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR EXPLAINING DIFFERENT TYPES OF MAGNETIC ENHANCEMENT IN WORLDWIDE LOESS DEPOSITS

Subir K. Banerjee ¹⁾, Eric A. Oches ²⁾, Christoph E. Geiss ¹⁾

1) University of Minnesota, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455

2) Univ. of South Florida, Dept. of Geology, 4202 E.Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620-5200

THE GENESIS OF PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE SOILS AND SOLIFLUCTION LAYERS AND THEIRCHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE FOR SLOPE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND MASS MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHWEST GERMANY

E. Bibus & B. Terhorst

D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

LOESS-PALAEOSOIL-SEQUENCES IN SOUTH GERMANY - STRATIGRAPHY, PALAEOCLIMATE AND CONNECTIONS WITH RIVER BENCHES

Bibus and B. Terhorst

Geographisches Institut, Hölderlinstr. 12, FRG-72074 T¡¡ì¹bingen

LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCES IN EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA - TOWARDS A QUATERNARY PALEOCLIMATIC HISTORY ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

Arnt Bronger

Geographisches Institut der Universität Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany

BURIED PALEOSOLS OF NORTH CAUCASIAN PIEDMONT AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION RELATED TO MAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Bronnikova M.A.¹⁾, Sedov S.N.¹⁾, Skripnikova M.I.²⁾ & Turova I.V.¹⁾

1) Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia
^{2) Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Moscow, Russia}

EAST ASIAN MONSOON VARIATIONS DURING THE LAST INTER GLACIAL: EVIDENCE FROM THE NORTHWESTERN MARGIN OF THE CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU

F.H. Chen¹⁾, J. Bloemendal²⁾, Z.D. Feng³⁾, J.M. Wang¹⁾, E. Parker²⁾ and Z.T. Guo⁴⁾

1). Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.

2). Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK.

3). Department of Earth & Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA.

4). Beijing Institute of Geology, CAS, Beijing, 100029, China.

RECENT CLIMATIC WARMING OVER THE QINGHAI-XIZANG (TIBET) PLATEAU AND ITS INFLUENCES ON ENVIRONMENTS

Cheng Guodong Li Shuxun Liu Xiaodong

Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, Lanzhou 730000-, P.R. China

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY, THE CHANGES OF PALEO-CLIMATE AND PALEOLAKE SHORELINE INDICATED BY SEDIMENTARY OF LONG CORES IN THE CENTRAL QAIDAM BASIN, WESTERN CHINA

Chen Ye, Wang Yongjin , Li Xuesong, Li Qinchen, Liu Zechun

Department of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097

METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS RELATED TO THE ROCK- OR MINERAL-MAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTS AND LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCES

M J Dekkers

Paleomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands; dekkers@geof.ruu.nl

REARRANGEMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION AT ABOUT 2.6 MA OVER NORTHERN CHINA: RECORDS OF EVIDENCE FROM GRAIN SIZE LOESS-RED CLAY SEQUENCES

Z.L. Ding^1,2), N.W. Rutter³⁾, J.M. Sun¹⁾, S.L. Yang¹⁾ and T.S. Liu¹⁾

1) Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

2) State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Xian 710054, China

3) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta,

Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E3

A STUDY ON PALEOSOIL AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN EASTERN DESERT REGION OF CHINA DURING THE HOLOCENE PERIOD

Dong Guangrong and Su Zhizhu

Institute of Desert Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

THE QUATERNARY HERBIVORE FAUNAS IN NORTH-EAST CHINA, EVOLUTION UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

Dong Wei, Xu Qinqi, Jin Changzhu, Liu Jinyi

Institute of vertebrate paleontology and paleoanthropology, chinese academy of sciences, beijing 100044

PEDOSTRATIGRAPHY ON THE CHINESE WESTERN LOESS PLATEAU AND THE TIBETAN PLATEAU AND ITS IMPLICATION ON CIRCULATION AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN RELATION TO UPLIFT OF TIBETAN PLATEAU

Fang Xiao-Min¹, Li Ji-Jun¹, R. Van der Voo³, Subir Banerjee², Yugo Ono⁴, Li Bingyuan⁵, Nu Lianqing¹, Yan Maodu¹

1 Dept. of Geography, Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, Gansu, PR China (fangxm@lzu.edu.cn)
^{2 Institute for Rock Magnetism, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455-0128, U.S.A.
^{3 Department of Geol. Sci., the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA.
^{4 Graduate School of Environ. Earth Sci., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
^{5 Institute of Geography, CAS, Beijing}}}}

ROCK MAGNETIC AND GRAIN SIZE EVIDENCE FOR INTENSIFIED ASIAN ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION SINCE 800,000 YEARS B.P. RELATED TO TIBETAN UPLIFT

Fang Xiao-Min ^a,b, Li Ji-Jun ^a, Rob Van der Voo ^b

a Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, E-mail: fangxm@lzu.edu.cn, telfax: +86-931-891 3362.
^{b Department of Geological Sciences, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA.}

PALEOENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON THE BIOMORPHIC ANALYSIS

Alexandra Golyeva

Institute of Geography Russean Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

QUATERNARY PALEOSOLS AND ENVIRONMENT OF CHINA

Gong Zi-Tong, Liu Liang-Wu

Institute of Soil Science, Academia SinicaP.O.Box821, Nanjng210008, P. R. China

SOILS RESPONSES ON PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGES IN WET-DRY TROPICAL REGIONS (CUBA)

Raisa G. Gracheva

Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Science, Staromonetny 29, Moscow 109017 Russia

CLIMATE EXTREMES IN LOESS OF CHINA COUPLED WITH THE STRENGTH OF DEEP-WATER FORMATION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

Naiqin Zhengtang GUO^a Tungsheng LIU^a Nicolas FEDOROFF^b Lanying WEI^a Zhongli DING^a WU^a Huoyuan LU^a Wenying JIANG^aand Zhisheng AN^c

a Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China
^{b DEMOS, AGER, Institut National Agronomique P-G, Thiverval-Grignon 78850, France
^{c Xian Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box. 17, Xian 710054}}

GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MAGNETIC MINERALS IN CHINESE LOESS

Han Jiamao Jiang Wenying Chu Jun

Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

STUDIES ON TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS BETWEEN PEDOGENISIS AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ON THE LOESS PLATEAU AND NORHTEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU IN CHINA

Hao Yongping Fang Xiaomin Li Jijun

Department of Geography, Lanzhou University Lanzhou, Gansu 730000

State Key Laboratory of Resource and Environment Information System,

Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EVOLUTION OF ALPINE SOILS AND THE CLIMATICAL AND GLACIER CHENGES IN THE NORTHWESTERN CHINA

Hu Shuangxi and Yang Taibao

Department of Geographical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou,730000, China

‘The Yellow Cap’ on Quaternary Red Clay of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province

Hu Xuefeng and Gong Zitong

Institute of Soil Science, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, 210008

CO2 EMISSION FROM A PEAT SOIL IN KARELIA (NORTH-WESTERN RUSSIA) DURING HOLOCENE

Ikkonen Ye. N.

Institute of biology, Karelian Research Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia

A NEW PALEOSOIL SEQUENCE NEAR HEDERSLEBEN - LUVISOLS IN SAALIAN TO WEICHSELIAN SEDIMENTS (EASTERN FORELANDS OF THE HARZ MOUNTAINS)

W. Kainz , S. Wansa

Geologisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt, D-06035 Halle, Germany

A PEDOSEDIMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION FROM A LOESS-PALAEOSOL SEQUENCE IN THE PALOUSE: A PROXY RECORD OF QUATERNARY CLIMATE CHANGE.

King, M.1), Busacca, A.2), McDonald, E.2), Kemp, R.1)

1) Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.

2)Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, Geology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA.

ANALYSIS OF VERTISOLS WITH GILGAI FOR RECONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, NORTH CACASUS.

I. Kovda, O. Chichagova, A. Golyeva

Institute of Geography, Moscow,Russia

HOLOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTS TRACES IN SOIL PROFILES OF EASTERN FENNOSCANDIA

P.V.Krasilnikov

Institute of biology, Karelian Research Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia

UPLIFT OF THE QINGZANG (TIBETAN) PLATEAU AND BIG ICE SHEET PROBLEM

Li Jijun

Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China

DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM PROCESS OF CARBONATE IN LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCE: FORMATION AND TESTING OF A COMPARTMENT MODEL

Li Xuyong¹⁾, Libaoguo¹⁾ and Zhong Junping²⁾

1)Department of Soil and Water,China Agicultural University,Beijing 100094,China

2)Department of Agronomy ,Xinjiang Agricultural University,Urumqi,830052,China

A SOIL DEVELOPMENT INDEX FOR PALEOSOL RESEARCH

Li Xuyong¹,Li Baoguo¹ and Guo Zhengtang²

1Department of Soil and Water,China Agicultural University,Beijing 100094,China
^{2Institute of Geology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China}

PALEOSOL EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE HUANG-HUAI-HAI PLAIN

Liu Liang-wu, Institute of Soil Science, Academia Sinica

O. Box 821, nanjing210008, p. R. China

MAGHAEMITE AS A THERMALLY UNSTABLE MAGNETIC COMPONENT IN CHINESE LOESS AND ITS PALAEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCES

LIU Xiu-Ming

School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia

Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029

Email: xliu@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

CLIMATIC CHANG E AND THE RED PALEOSOLS ON THE QINGHAI-XIZANG(Q-X) PLATEAU

Lu Jinggang Tan Gennian

Zhejiang Agricultural University, China

SOIL PARTICLE SIZE AS EVIDENCE LOR WINTER MONSOON CHANGE IN THE LAST INTERGLACIAL

Lu lianqing, Fang Xiaomin and Li Jijun

Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, 730000

MAGNETISM OF QUATERNARY RED EARTH IN EASTERN CHINA AND ITS PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE

Lu Shenggao

Department of Soil Science, Zhejiang Agricultural University, Hangzhou 310029

HIGH-RESOLUTION PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN THE PEDOSEDIMENTARY INTERPRETATION OF INCIPIENT SOIL DEVELOPMENT IN THICK LOESS

Joseph A. Mason

Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska, 113 Nebraska Hall,

Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0517

RELICT PALEOSOL WEATHERING SEQUENCE ON ANDESITE, IN THE GREAT BASIN, USA

M. D. Mays * and W. D. Nettleton

Soil Scientist and Research Soil Scientist

National Soil Survey Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Lincoln, NE USA

HIGH RESOLUTION POLLEN RECORD FROM DICRITY RED BEDS LINXIA BED AND ENVIRONMENT EVOLUTION

Ma Yuzhen , LI Jijun, Fang Xiaomin

Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000,P.R.China

CLIMATIC CHANGES SINCE THE LATE PLIOCENE IN JAPAN RECONSTRUCTED FROM PLANT MACROFOSSILS.

Arata Momohara

Dept. of Environmental Science, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Matsudo City, Chiba, 271-0092 Japan

HOLOCENE SOILS AND RELICT PALEOSOLS, SOUTHERN COAST RANGES, CALIFORNIA, USA

W.D. Nettleton, B.R. Brasher, and E.C. Benham

USDA_NRCS, NSSC, Soil Survey Laboratory, Lincoln, NE, 68508

PALAEOSOLS, REGOLITH STRATIGRAPHY AND CLIMATE IN AUSTRALIA

C.D. Ollier

Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

THE MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE YEHUCHENG AND XIANSHUIHE FORMATIONS OF OLIGO/MIOCENE AGE NEAR LANZHOU CITY, CHINA

Neil D. Opdyke ¹⁾ , Larry J. Flynn, Peabody Museum ²⁾, Everitt H. Lindsay ³⁾, Qui Zhanxiang ⁴⁾

1), Kainian Haung , Department of geology, University of Florida , Gainesville Florida)

2), (Harvard University,Cambridge Mass.)

3), (Dept. of Geology ,University of Arizona ,Tucson, Arizona)

4), (Inst. Vert. Paleo. and Paleoanthro., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

CLAY MINERALS IN PALEOSOLS OF CRETACEOUS AGE IN ISTRIA, CROATIA

F. Ottner¹⁾, G. Durn²⁾, B. Schwaighofer¹⁾ and J. Tišljar²⁾,

1) University of Bodenkultur Vienna, Department of Applied Geology, Peter Jordan Strasse 70, A-1190 Vienna, Austria, phone:(+43) 1 47654 5407, fax: (+43) 1 47654 5449, e mail: ottner@ mail.boku.ac.at

2) University of Zagreb, Faculty of mining, geology and petroleum engineering, Pierottijeva 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia, phone: (+385) 1 441839, fax: (+385) 1 440008, e-mail: gdurn@ rudar.rgn.hr

CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU DURING THE LAST 150,000 YERAS

Pan Baotian

Department of Geography, Lanzhou University

LATE QUATERNARY VARIABILITY OF THE ASIAN MONSOONS RECORDED IN HEMIPELAGIC MUD RECORDS IN THE ARABIAN SEA AND LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCES IN CHINA

Prins¹⁾, M.A., G.J. Weltje²⁾, G.J. Reichart¹⁾, J.-B.W. Stuut^1,3) and Jule Xiao⁴⁾

1).Institute for Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate (IPPU), Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands

2).(a) Department of Geo-Energy, Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO, P.O. Box 6012, 2600 JA Delft, The Netherlands; (b) Subfaculty of Applied Earth Sciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5028, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

3).Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of Marine Chemistry and Geology, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands

4).Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, 100029 Beijing, China

END-MEMBER MODELING OF SILICICLASTIC GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS: THE LATE QUATERNARY RECORD OF EOLIAN AND FLUVIAL SEDIMENT SUPPLY TO THE ARABIAN SEA AND ITS PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE

Maarten A. Prins ^†) and Gert Jan Weltje ^†),‡)

†) Department of Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University,

P.O. Box 80021, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands (E-mail: mprins@earth.ruu.nl)
^{‡) Present addresses: (1) Department of Geo-Energy, Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO, P.O. Box 6012, NL-2600 JA Delft, The Netherlands (E-mail: g.weltje@nitg.tno.nl); (2) Subfaculty of Applied Earth Sciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5028, NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands (E-mail: g.j.weltje@ta.tudelft.nl)}

PEDOGENIC ORIGIN OF MAGNETIC PROPERTY VARIATIONS IN LOESS/PALEOSOL SEQUENCE IN CENTRAL ALASKA

J G Rosenbaum¹⁾ ,R L Reynolds, D R Muhs, S S Harlan ²⁾ ,J E Beget ³⁾

1) U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980, Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225; 303-236-1304; jrosenbaum@usgs.gov

2) USGS, MS 980, Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225

3) Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775

LATE HOLOCENE MAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN CENTRAL RUSSIAN PLAIN: PALEOPEDOLOGICAL EVIDENCES FROM EARLY-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE.

Sedov S.N., Zazovskaya E.P., Bronnikova M.A., Melnik E.I , Rozov S.Yu.

Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia.

LATE CENOZOIC UPLIFT OF THE QINGHAI-XIZANG (TIBETAN) PLATEAU AND EAST ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Shi Yafeng^a,c, Li Jijun^b, Li Benyuan^c, Yao Tandong^a, Wang Suming^d, Li Shijie^a,

Cui Zhijiu^e, Wang Fubao^f, Pan Baotian^b, Fang Xiaomin^b, and Zhang Qingsong^c

a Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS);

b Department of Geography, Lanzhou University;

c Institute of Geography (Beijing), CAS;

d Nanjin Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS;

e Department of Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University;

f Department of Urban and Resources, Nanjin University.

THE PALEOCLIMATIC INTERPRETATION OF BASALT-DERIVED PALEOSOLS

Arieh Singer

The Seagram center for soil and water sciences,

The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

COMPLEXITY OF THE SOIL SYSTEM AND DIVERSITY OF SOIL CHANGE MODELS

V.O.Targulian

Institute of Geography, 109027, Moscow, Staromonetny, 29,Russia

MINERAL MAGNETIC AND PEDOGENIC STUDIES OF THE PALEOCLIMATE RECORD OF THE UPPER PART OF THE LOESS/PALEOSOL SEQUENCE AT JIAODAO, CENTRAL LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA

Jeff TenPas 1), Water Resources 2), Natasa J. Vidic 3), Michael J. Singer 4), and Water Resources 5), Kenneth L. Verosub 6)

Dept. of Land Air and, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA

Dept. of Agronomy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dept. of Land Air, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA

Dept. of Geology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA

ICE CORE EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE QINGHAI-XIZANG (TIBET) PLATEAU: IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR FUTURE

Lonnie G. Thompson

Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio University, U.S.A.

MIDDLE AND LATE PLEISTOCENE POLLEN STRATIGRAPHY, DATING AND EVIDENCE OF EARLY HUMAN POPULATIONS (HOMO ERECTUS) IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Brigitte Urban

Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, University of Applied Sciences,

Suderburg, Germany

THE MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC RECORD IN CHINESE LOESSES AND PALEOSOLS: HOW FAST WERE THE MAGNETIZATIONS ACQUIRED?

Rob Van der Voo

Department of Geological Sciences, the University of Michigan,

Ann Arbor, MI. 48109-1063, U.S.A., e-mail voo@umich.edu

INFLUENCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION ON ROCK MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF LOESS SEQUENCES

Adry J. van Velzen

Paleomagnetic laboratory ‘fort hoofddijk’ department of earth sciences, utrecht university, budapestlaan 17, 3584 cd, utrecht, netherlands.

FEASIBILITY OF USING ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS TO STUDY MILLENNIAL-SCALE PALEOCLIMATE FEATURES

Kenneth l. Verosub

Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SOILS OF THE LJUBLJANA BASIN CHRONOSEQUENCE, SLOVENIA

Natasa J. Vidic,1), Kenneth L. Verosub 2)

University of Ljubljana, Agronomy Dept., 1111 Ljubljana, Slovenia

University of California, Dept. of Geology, Davis, CA 95616, USA

A COMPREHENSIVE HORIZON NOMENCLATURE FOR DESCRIBING STACKED ALLUVIAL AND LOESS PALEOSOL SEQUENCES.

D.A. Wysocki*, S. J. Indorante, and P.J. Schoeneberge

National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE and NRCS Carbondale, IL.

SOIL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTIES AND THEIR EVOLUTION WITH TIME IN THE PIEDMONT OF THE YUMUSHAN MOUNTAINS OF THE HEXI CORRIDOR*

Xing Chengqi Zhang Jie Dong Zhiping

Seismological Institute of Lanzhou, CSB, Lanzhou 730000, China

THICKNESS AND ACCUMULATION RATE OF PEBBLE CALCIC COATINGS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN DATING QUATERNARY FAULTS IN THE NORTHERN PIEDMONT ZONE OF ALTUN MOUNTAINS*

Xing Chengqi

Seismological Institute of Lanzhou, CSB, Lanzhou 730000, China

LATE-PERMIAN GLEY-GLOSSIC RED CALCISOLS AS INDICATORS OF PALEO PEDOGENESIS AND SEDIMENTATION (MOSCOW SYNECLISE CASE-STUDY)

E. Yakimenko,* V. Targulian,* N. Chumakov,** M. Arefjev,*** S. Inozemtcev***

Institute of Geography*, Geological Institute** , RAS; Moscow State University***

CAN SOIL CARBONATE BE USED AS PROXY FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE?

YAN Maodu, LU Lianqing, CHEN Shiyue, FANG Xiaomin, LI Jijun

Department of Geography, Lanzhou university, China, 73000

HIGH RESOLUTION PEDOGENIC AND ROCK MAGNETIC RECORDS OF ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON INSTABILITY DURING THE PAST 60,000 YEARS FROM THE CHINESE WESTERN LOESS PLATEAU

Yugo Ono^a), Fang Xiao-Min^a-d), Pan Bao-Tian^b), Li Ji-Jun^b), Guan Dong-Hong^b),

Hitoshi Fukusawa^d), Shizuo Nagatsuka^c), and Masayuki Torii^e)

a) Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan

b) Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China

c) Department of Applied Biochemistry, University of Tsukuba, Tennou-dai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305 Japan

d) Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, 192-03 Japan

e) Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-01 Japan

SOIL DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH-COLD AND ARID AREAS AND THEIR CLIMATIC RESPONSE

Zhang Hucai

Department of Geographical Sciences, Lanzhou University,

Lanzhou 730000, China

CARBON ISOTOPE EVIDENCE OF THE SOIL ORGANIC MATTER

FOR THE ECOLOGICAL SHIFT DURING THE LAST GLACIAL AGE IN JIUJIANG, JIANGXI, IN CHINA

Zhang Pingzhong* Wang Xianbin* and Wang Sumin**

^{* State Key Laboratory of Gas Geochemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
^{** Lake Sediment and Environmental Laboratory, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnolgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P. R. China}}

THE FORMATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CLAY FILM IN LOESS AND RED-PALEOSOLS

Zhu Xianmo¹⁾, Zhao Jingbo²⁾

1) institute of water and Soil conservation, Acvademia Sinica and Ministry of water Consorvancy, 712100

2) Xi’an Engineering University, 710054