Part V — Working group report
Report from working group on definitions used in paleopedology

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  • Pedosedimentary record of MIS 5 as an interplay of climatic trends and local conditions: Multi-proxy evidence from the Palaeolithic site of Moravský Krumlov IV (Moravia, Czech Republic)

    2021, Catena
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    Periods of cold and arid glacial conditions were interrupted by warmer and more humid phases, during which more favourable conditions for soil development predominated. Soils developed within these phases got overlayered and conserved in the form of buried soils, also referred to as palaeosols, mostly by further aeolian or colluvial deposition during colder phases (Ruhe, 1956; Catt, 1998; Johnson, 1998; Schaetzl and Anderson, 2005). Palaeosols often create polygenetic formations whose study seems to be more complicated.

  • Soil evolution and origin of landscape in a late Quaternary tectonically mobile setting: The Po Plain-Northern Apennines border in Lombardy (Italy)

    2018, Catena
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    The strong landscape instability which characterized these reliefs during the Late Pleistocene relates to uplift and faulting at the SC hill, CAS and ZOR sectors and to the alluvial and glacio-fluvial erosional-depositional history at the PML sites surrounding the hills. A complete polygenetic pedo-sequence (compound geosols as reported by Catt, 1998) of the San Colombano hill is preserved in the ABF profile of the lowermost hill morphological sector SC4, where three superposed in situ soils have been recognized (Fig. 3). This profile permits to define three distinct morphological surfaces of stabilization (i.e. biostasy phases in which pedogenesis played a major role; Erhart, 1967; ‘MS’ hereafter), named MS-a, MS-b and MS-c in order of younging (Figs. 3, 10), which could be recognized and correlated through the different sectors of the study area.

  • Buried palaeosols of NW Sardinia (Italy) as archives of the Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations

    2014, Catena
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    Palaeosols offer long-term and fairly continuous palaeoclimatic records, in particular when placed (buried) within an appropriate sedimentological and stratigraphical context (Kraus and Bown, 1986; Mack, 1992). The term geosol has been proposed to designate the buried palaeosols that have a consistent stratigraphic position and can constitute a reference unit in pedostratigraphy (Catt, 1998). Geosols, and more generally speaking buried palaeosols, are increasingly studied by interdisciplinary analytical methods as archives of palaeoclimatic information (Sheldon and Tabor, 2009).

  • Multidisciplinary study of Holocene archaeological soils in an upland Mediterranean site: Natural versus anthropogenic environmental changes at Cecita Lake, Calabria, Italy

    2013, Quaternary International
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    Progressive assimilation of micropumices into the soil profiles (possibly encouraged by biological and agricultural activities; see below) and their easy weathering led to a relatively rapid soil buildup. Rates of soil formation were higher than those of simultaneous (though certainly pulsing) volcano-sedimentary input, leading to an almost complete transformation and homogenization of fresh volcanic parent material into the partly formed soil profile, without any clear lithological and pedogenetic discontinuity (cf. accretionary soils, sensu Catt, 1998; Kemp, 1998; and continuous (regular) syn-lithogenic pedogenesis, sensu Tursina, 2009). Surface exposure could have even caused at least partial overprinting of features related to more recent pedogenetic processes (e.g. leaching) over the past ones, and thus possibly obliterated some climatic signals related to the past.

  • Pedostratigraphy

    2013, Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science: Second Edition
  • Chapter 5 Continental Sequence Stratigraphy and Continental Carbonates

    2010, Developments in Sedimentology
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    Identification of these pedogenic elements led to the delineation of sequence boundaries on interfluves in the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada (McCarthy and Plint, 1998; Plint et al., 2001). Paleosol pedocomplexes: Paleosol profiles at sequence boundaries are often stacked and comprise pedocomplexes where two or more paleosols are separated over large areas by a thin deposit of C horizon material, and where they are overlain and underlain by larger amounts of strata that contain weak to no evidence of soil development (Catt, 1998). Although the top of each paleosol profile within a pedocomplex does signify a discontinuity, the sequence boundary that separates large scale sedimentary packages is placed at the top of the pedocomplex.

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