INQUA Roma 2023

Conveners:
Elizabeth Solleiro Rebolledo, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico (lead convener)
Fabio Scarciglia, Università della Calabria, Italy

Scientific theme: 3: Quaternary environments and Human evolution: fossil record, phylogeny, palaeobiology, palaeoecology and cultural models

INQUA commission(s):
TERPRO-Terrestrial Processes, Deposits and History; PALCOM-Palaeoclimates

Abstract: This session invites contributions dealing with soils and paleosols as a memory of environmental change and man-landscape interactions. The session will be focused on paleopedology-based environmental reconstructions applying both traditional and innovative methods. Special attention will be given to studies based on micromorphology as one of the key tools to understand soil processes and their time sequences, to discriminate lithological inheritance, pedofeatures related to different stages of pedogenesis and their diagenetic alteration. Traditional case studies of paleosols within the different epochs and (paleo)geographic contexts, regional, global, and retrospective analysis of paleosols and related environmental changes, integration of paleosol data into multiproxy reconstructions are welcome. Contributions on soils and soil-sedimentary sequences under human impact and in an archaeological context in particular that imprint man-landscape interactions in the past are also invited.