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Аннотация:In different countries there is an increasing awareness
of the role of paleosols in paleoenvironmental reconstruction,
and in agriculture and forestry. Paleosols are
not always lifeless natural bodies, and they actually
govern the present day physical, chemical and biological
fertility of many ecosystems of the world. It is well
known that the study of paleosols is often a complex and
difficult task, although in many instances very rewarding.
In recent decades, scientists of different countries
have used different approaches in order to address this
difficult task. The outcome of this situation is a
composite scenario of approaches to paleopedology.
This issue of Quaternary International, which includes
many Russian contributors in addition to other authors
fromother parts of the world, fits into this framework.
This volume includes 18 papers produced by authors
frommany different countries including Russia (5),
UK, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, India,
China, USA, Switzerland, and Mexico.
This volume may also provide an understanding for
the international scientific community of the status of
paleopedology research in many countries, as well as
presenting different case studies and different important
research approaches. A range of papers deals with a
robust traditional approach, combining geomorphology
mainly with soil morphology (in some case in association
with magnetic susceptibility analysis) in order to
infer regional paleoenvironmental information, as is the
case for Golyeva and Chichagova, Fedeneva and
Dergacheva, Sycheva et al., Zykina and Zykin, Fang
et al., and Lanczont et al. In the same direction, Bronger
attempts a large geographical correlation of loess soil
sequences in Europe.
A number of papers, including Scarciglia et al.,
Bronger and Sedov, Berenyi et al., Kemp et al.,Solleiro-Rebolledo et al., and Terhorst and Ottner
deal with the use of many analytical tools applied to
soil material in order to infer paleoenvironmental
information. In these papers, micromorphology in
association with other techniques (XRD, DXRD,
geochemistry, isotope analysis, OSL) plays a very
important and powerful role. Where this combination
of tools is applied, complex soil genesis issues seem to be
successfully addressed. Two other interesting papers
by Achyuthan and Pustovoytov refer to the use of
carbonate features to infer paleoenvironmental data.
With this issue, we hope to draw attention to the role
of paleosols in terms of paleoenvironmental reconstruction,
but also to the recognition of their large spatial
distribution. In such a scenario, regional correlation
studies may make important contributions in terms of
management of many ecosystems governed by paleosols.
In addition we hope to have shown that a combination
of techniques (micromorphology, DXRD, OSL, and
others) can give relevant advantages for the understanding
of complex soil features. We thank all
participants for their contributions and collaboration,
and we also thank the reviewers for their greatly
appreciated assistance.