Paleosols are traditionally regarded as good records of paleoecological and paleoclimaticchanges thus are widely used to indicate paleoclimatic conditions and land surface evolution. Theywere never regarded as a preci...Paleosols are traditionally regarded as good records of paleoecological and paleoclimaticchanges thus are widely used to indicate paleoclimatic conditions and land surface evolution. Theywere never regarded as a precise tools for paleoclimatic change. This view changed withimplementation of the IGBP core project: PAGES (Past Global Change) in mid-1980. Thesuccessful correlation of long-term continuous oxygen isotope climatic records of deep seasediments with Quaternary paleosol-loess sequences in Europe by Kukla and in China by LiuTungsheng further validated usefulness of paleosols for paleoclimatic and surface evolutionstudies. The continuous Chinese paleosol-loess sequences provided insights into past展开更多
文摘Paleosols are traditionally regarded as good records of paleoecological and paleoclimaticchanges thus are widely used to indicate paleoclimatic conditions and land surface evolution. Theywere never regarded as a precise tools for paleoclimatic change. This view changed withimplementation of the IGBP core project: PAGES (Past Global Change) in mid-1980. Thesuccessful correlation of long-term continuous oxygen isotope climatic records of deep seasediments with Quaternary paleosol-loess sequences in Europe by Kukla and in China by LiuTungsheng further validated usefulness of paleosols for paleoclimatic and surface evolutionstudies. The continuous Chinese paleosol-loess sequences provided insights into past
