with pre- and post-conference field trips

Mexico City, October 7-17, 2001

The Symposium organisers are planning a four-day program consisting of three session days and one-day mid-symposium field trip.

Pre-conference field trip to area of volcano Toluca: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Andosols buried under ash and pumice flows with special attention to landscape and paleoclimate development. 2 days. Costs US$ 150

Mid-conference field trip to Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone, visiting the lacustrine sedimentary sequence of Texcoco ex-lake. 1 day. Costs US$ 50 (including lunch meal and entrance to the Archaeological site)

Post-conference field trip to Tlaxcala state: relict polygenetic Luvisols with tepetates (indurated horizons in volcanic sediments). 2 days. Costs US$ 150

Price of both two-days excursions include bus transportation, one-night hotel, excursion guide and lunches, one breakfast, and one dinner. Maximum number of participants: 40 per excursion.

Post-conference tour to Yucatan is proposed from October 14^th to 17^th. It includes soil and environmental excursion in tropical rainforest of National Park of El Edén, visiting famous Maya archaeological zones of Chichen-Itza and Tulún. The excursion ends at Cancún where it is possible to take flight in the International Airport.

1. Paleosol-sedimentary sequences (loess, alluvial, lacustrine, volcanic, etc.) as a record of the Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change. Special emphasis will be made on paleoecological interpretation of buried Andosols, paleosols with vertic properties and indurated horizons (tepetates) in the regions of active Quaternary volcanism.

2. Magnetic properties of Quaternary and pre-Quaternary paleosols and sediments as paleoclimatic indicators.

3. Polygenetic models of pedogenesis in relation to Quaternary climatic change. Emphasis will be given to non-glaciated subtropical and tropical regions.

4. Biomorphs (pollen, phytoliths, macroremains) in paleosols: research and interpretation problems.

5. Paleopedology and archaeology. Paleopedological evidences of ancient man-induced environmental change.

6. Dating of paleosols.

Contributors are invited to submit their papers electronically as a Word 6.0 for Windows attached file. Please prepare your abstract in English, Times 12 font, single spaced on one letter-size page including line drawings, tables, references etc., within the format 2cm free space on each margin

Contributors will be informed within 4 weeks about acceptance as oral or poster presentation. A booklet of abstracts will be issued at the start of the meeting.

Each oral presentation will be 15 minutes in length and 5 minutes for questions. Slide (5x5 cm) and overhead projector are available. If you need additional equipment contact us.

All abstracts must arrive latest by March 31, 2001:

From contributors of both Americas, Australia and New Zealand:

Alan Palmer, Soil and Earth Science, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Phone: +64-6- 356-9099 ext. 7746, Fax: +64-6- 350-5632, E-mail: A.S.Palmer@massey.ac.nz

From contributors of Europe and Africa to:

Arnt Bronger, Department of Geography, University of Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany. Phone: +49-431- 880 2952, Fax: +49-431- 880 4658. E-mail: bronger@geographie.uni-kiel.de

From contributors of NIS and Asia to:

Alexander Makeev, Institute of Soil Science MSU-RAS, Moscow, Russia. Phone/Fax +7-095- 932 91 95, e-mail: makeev@fadr.msu.ru

US$ 130. This will cover all sessions, abstract volume, program, bag with conference materials, coffee during breaks, lunches during the session days, transportation from hotel to meeting place and from meeting place to hotel at the beginning and the end of sessions.

Payment after June 30: US$ 160. Student fee US$50

Please send check to the following address:

M.Sc. Lourdes Flores-Delgadillo

Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Departamento de Edafología

Circuito de la Investigación Científica, Ciudad Universitaria

04510, México, D.F.

In Mexico City, where the conference will be held, double-bed rooms and single-bed rooms are available for about:

Hotel Lisboa: Hotel Benidorm:

Single-bedroom: 32.00 USD Single-bedroom: 52.00 USD

Double bedroom: 38.00 USD Double-bedroom: 62.00 USD

I intend to participate in the VI International Symposium and Field Workshop on Paleopedology in Mexico City, Mexico October 7-13, 2001 with Conference tour.

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