The study of soils can provide information about present and past environments in cold-climate regions. Both in polar areas and in mid-latitude high mountain areas the study of paleosols allows to identifying different aspects of landscape evolution at different time scales. A wide range of geomorphic processes (solifluction, debris flows, glacial advances), volcanic activity, aeolian deposition, human impact, etc. has been inferred based on the study of paleosols in sedimentary sequences. Over the last years studies on paleosols in these areas have gained importance. New methods and dating techniques have been used to better understand the landscape of the sedimentary record in cold environments.

The aim of the session "Soil processes in cold regions under changing climate scenarios" is to bring to light the state of progress in knowledge to unlock the palaeoenvironmental information inferred from paleosols, to improve the geochronology of the past record and to contribute to the reconstruction of landscape evolution in cold-climate regions. Researchers involved in these topics are kindly invited to submit an abstract for this session.