Pleistocene climatic history of East and Central Asia based on paleopedological indicators in loess–paleosol sequences

Holocene colluviation and its implications for tracing human-induced soil erosion and redeposition on the piedmont loess lands of the Qinling Mountains, northern China

“…It has also been shown that the absence of A or E horizons in many soils may be attributable to erosion prior to burial by loess (Bronger et al, 1998). Our investigations in the loess-covered Weihe River valley including the piedmont lands suggest that sheet erosion by overland flow also occurred during the transition from glacial to interglacial environment, i.e.…”

Soil formation in Phobjikha Valley, Central Bhutan with special regard to the redistribution of loessic sediments

“…The 2A buried topsoil has been eroded in PK 150, but is visible in a nearby road cutting. The absence of A or E horizons due to erosion prior to anew burial by loess, is a common feature in paleosols (Bronger et al, 1998).…”

Magnetic susceptibility of the Xifeng section and its paleoclimate significance

“…It was first referred to by Anderson as the Hipparion red soil and was thought to have originated as alluvial flood deposit, or as the relict weathered crust of red soil developed at the base of a mountain. This water-lain origin of the red clay gradually lost favor, and as early as in 1958 Russian scientists included the red clay with the loess-paleosol sequence together as an eolian product (Bronger et al, 1989(Bronger et al, , 1998Chen Jun et al, 2002). This conclusion was generally ignored until the last decade when Liu et al studied the red clay using the magnetic fabric approach that had been used successfully to distinguish water-lain (secondary) loess from aeolian (primary) loess by alignment differences of magnetic particles deposited in air and water media.…”