Sessions at the INQUA Congress, Bern/Switzerland, 20-27 July
Members of the Paleopedology Commission organized two sessions at the INQUA Congress in Bern. One was a full-day paleopedological session, comprising three oral blocks and a poster session. It included two excellent invited talks and a number of interesting presentations of research from almost all over the world. The other session was an interdisciplinary session that aimed to bring together scientists working on paleo-reconstructions for the same time (MIS 5 to present) based on different archives (paleo-lakes, speleothems, paleosols, sediments). As mentioned earlier, it is one of the major wishes of the commission chairs and several active Commission members to enhance contacts and collaboration between paleopedologists and other researchers working on different archives, because we feel that there is still significant potential in improving paleo-environmental reconstructions by closer interdisciplinary collaboration. Therefore, we were happy to see that a number of colleagues were attracted by this idea so that two interesting oral blocks and a poster session could be held.
Paleopedological session Indicators of climatic changes in saprolite, paleosols, polygenetic soils, and soil sediments (Conveners: Daniela Sauer, Mohammed Rafi G. Sayyed and Birgit Terhorst)
Oral Presentations
Monday 25 July, 08.30 - 10.10
Fabio Scarciglia
Macro/micromorphological features and some other climatic proxies in paleosols and polygenetic soils
Sajid Hundekari
Textural control on the weathering of basic igneous rocks: A micromorphological approach.
Stefano Carnicelli
A Late Quaternary History of Coastal Plain Development Recorded in Palaeosols and Sedimentary Successions
Elizabeth Solleiro Rebolledo
Paleoenvironments of Late Pleistocene-Holocene in Sonora desert, NE Mexico based on the paleopedological proxies: study case in La Playa archaeological site
Neli Jordanova
Magnetic properties of soils from Livingston Island (South Schetlands, Antarctica) as indicators of weathering and pedogenesis
Monday 25 July, 10.50 - 12.30
Alexander O. Makeev Paleopedology: new meaning for geosciences
Arnoud Boom
Molecular characterisation of dryland soil organic matter: implications for preservation in Quaternary sedimentary archives
Maria Dergacheva
Humic acids of paleosols and sediments as marker of Pleistocene - Holocene climate change
Stephen Wagner
Quaternary soils and soil sediments of the Balearic Islands as indicators of climatic changes
Cihat Alçiçek Mehmet
Abrupt transition from wet Pliocene into dry Pleistocene proved by faunal and isotopic composition of the palustrine carbonates and pedogenic calcretes in the Çal-Karahallı basin of SW Anatolia
Boris Brasseur
Pedo-sedimentary dynamics of Sangiran dome hominid bearing layers (L/M Pleistocene, Java central, Indonesia): a paleopedological approach of ‘Pithecanthropus’ (Javanese Homo erectus) environments
Monday 25 July, 15.50 - 17.30
Holger Kels
Stepping through the palaeolandscape: A transect from the Carpathian foothills to the lowland of the Romanian Banat
Haibin Wang
Assessing geochemical indicators of weathering and sorting in last interglacial palaeosols in the Chinese Loess Plateau and its implications for palaeoclimatic reconstruction
Qingzhen Hao
The record of changing hematite and goethite accumulation over the last 22 Ma on the Chinese Loess Plateau, from magnetic measurements and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy
Mohammed Rafi Sayyed
Mineral Magnetic studies on lateritic profiles developed over the western continental
margin of Deccan Basaltic Province, India
Gabriella Barta
Secondary carbonates and stable isotope studies of the Süttö loess-paleosoil sequence in
Hungary
Junyi Ge
Magnetostratigraphy of the Xihe loess-soil sequence and implication for late Neogene
uplift of the West Qinling Mountains
Poster Presentations
Monday 25 July, 14.45 - 15.50
Sorcha Diskin
Depositional palaeo-environments of the Boteti Delta, Makgadikgadi Pans (Botswana Kalahari)
Ju Yong Kim
Cyclic Paleosoils of Last Glacial Period(MIS 2-4) in the Geoarcheological Matrix of the Paleolithic Sites, Korea
Fabio Scarciglia
Middle Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes recorded in a pedostratigraphic succession of Sessano (Molise, Italy): a multidisciplinary approach
Zhaoyu Zhu
Tracking for climate and parent rocks from rare earth elements in topsoils along the eastern part of China
Yuki Matsuoka
The effect of Mugineic acid secreted by rice plant Hinohikari on soil
Marco Firpo
Loess distribution on the northern flank of Ligurian Alps (NW-Italy): topographic influences and paleoenviromental implications.
Diana Jordanova
Application of multivariate statistical methods for assessment of feasibility of predicting the particle-size distribution from magnetic properties of different soil types from Bulgaria
Stephen Wagner
Reddening as climatic indicator? Investigations on Quaternary soils and soil sediments of the Balearic Islands
Sophie Baker
Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of a recently exposed saprolite profile in the Chilean Coastal Range
Michael Zech
Reconstructing Quaternary vegetation history in the Carpathian Basin, SE Europe, using n-alkane biomarkers as molecular fossils: problems and possible solutions, potential and limitations
Masashi Takada
Stable oxygen isotope of opal phytoliths from Japanese Sasa and Phyllostachys: Basic information toward the paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Lidia Danko
Aeolian records of abrupt environmental changes in southern Siberia during Middle-Late Holocene based on the research in the Lake Baikal Region
Tobias Sprafke
The loess/paleosol sequence Paudorf – An archive of Quaternary environmental changes in the loess area of Lower Austria
Xiaoyong Wang
Rock magnetic investigation of loess deposits in Luonan Basin (central China) and its paleoclimatic implications - A case study
Interdisciplinary session
Reconstructing environmental impacts of climate changes from MIS 5 to present, based on terrestrial and lacustrine archives
(Conveners: Stefano Carnicelli and Valérie Andrieu-Ponel)
Oral Presentations
Friday 22 July, 10.50 - 12.30
Daniela Sauer
The potential of combining of lacustrine, palaeopedological and other palaeoenvironmental archives – general idea and examples from the Late Pleistocene in the Mediterranean
Daniela Moser
Soil charcoal analysis at Cecita Lake (Sila Massif, Southern Italy) for understanding environmental changes: climate or human impact?
Nicole Limondin-Lozouet
New MIS 5e continental record from Northern France: the multidisciplinary study of Caours calcareous tufa (Somme basin)
Claire Gallant
Examining the potential of loess in Southern Spain as an indicator of geomorphic response to climatic shifts: MIS5e to Holocene
Lucy Farr
Recent geoarchaeological investigations in the al-Marj basin: providing a late Quaternary record of past palaeoenvironmental change in Cyrenaica, Libya
Friday 22 July, 15.50 - 17.30
Yoav Avni
The concept of Natural Desertification – the Global approach
Sangheon Yi
Pollen-inferred Holocene environmental reconstruction in South Korea: vegetation change and human impact
Darren Jeffers
Glacial to glacial palaeoclimate and vegetation dynamics of the southern Beqaa valley, Lebanon
Carole Bégeot
Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental history of the southern Vosges mountains, North-East France
Poster Presentations
Friday 22 July, 14.30 - 15.50
Yan Mu
Climate effect of dust aerosol in southern Chinese Loess Plateau since the last glacial period
Sangheon Yi
Holocene vegetation and environmental changes in small inter-valley of the Paju area, South Korean
Janneke I Jmker
Geochemical and sedimentological analyses of dune fields on the NE Tibetan Plateau and their environmental implications
Georg Stauch
Sediment cascades on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau – an example from the Donggi Cona catchment
Fabio Scarciglia
Pedological and anthracological study of Holocene soils for paleoenvironmental reconstructions: a comparison between two archaeological sites in Calabria, southern Italy
Julie Dabowski
Multiproxy record of environmental and climatic variations during the Eemian from the Northern France calcareous tufa of Caours: combining petrography, malacology and geochemistry
Jeroen Schokker
Palaeoclimatic significance of an Early to Middle-Weichselian lacustrofluvial sedimentary record in the North-Western Netherlands
Hanane Redda
Sedimentology and geochemistry of lacustrine terraces of three Middle Atlas lakes: Holocene paleoclimatic reconstruction in Morocco.
Stefan Winkler
A new method of obtaining high-resolution paleoclimate records from speleothem fluid inclusions
Amos Frumkin Late Quaternary palaeoclimate of the southern Levant from stromatolites and speleothems of the Dead Sea region
Yoav Avni
Is the transition from aggradation to incision during the last glacial-interglacial shift in the two hemispheres synchronous? The Southern Levant and the South Australia case studies
William Sallun Filho
Paleoclimatic records of quaternary tufa in the Serra do André Lopes karst, southeastern Brazil
Sallun A., Ernandes Martins
Holocene changes inferred from the geochemistry of paleolagoon sediments in southern Brazil
Alison Blyth
Reconstructing terrestrial palaeotemperatures using microbial lipids preserved in stalagmites
Alison Blyth
Palaeoenvironmental change in Australasia during the last 50 ka: a novel multi-proxy stalagmite analysis
Natalie Ludgate
The use of lipid biomarkers from cave sediments as palaeoenvironmental indicators in South-East Asia
Shyhrete Shala
Early Holocene glacial-lake evolution in northern Finland - a multi-proxy approach.
Olga Margalef
Climatic trends for the last 70 ky BP in the SE Pacific: the Rano Aroi and Rano Raraku records from Easter Island
Hikaru Takahara
Vegetation reconstruction in MIS5e and MIS5d based on plant remains from the Mizukiri Peat layer, Fukui, western Japan. Part 2: Local vegetation changes from plant macrofossils
Ryoma Hayashi
Vegetation reconstruction in MIS5e and MIS5d based on plant remains from the Mizukiri Peat layer, Fukui, western Japan. Part 1: Chronology and regional vegetation from pollen data
Isabelle Couchoud
Multi-proxy study of Holocene speleothems from high altitude caves in the French Alps: preliminary insights on climate and landscape variations
Andrzej Tatur
Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments in Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica
Emma Gatti
Drough and flood in Holocenic Western India: a study on phytolith and paleosequences of the Mahi river, Gujarat.
Ian J Orland
Seasonal resolution of Eastern Mediterranean climate change since 34 ka from a Soreq Cave speleothem
Mona Court-Picon
Reconstruction of environmental and climatic changes during the Late Glacial at Moerbeke (Flemish Valley, Belgium) using multiproxy lake sediment analyses
Irina Panyushkina
High-resolution terrestrial MIS3 environment from trees encapsulated in landslide deposits of Oregon, USA