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SSS3.6 | Soils as the memory of past environmental conditions and human impacts
EDI
Soils as the memory of past environmental conditions and human impacts
Convener: Oren Ackermann | Co-conveners: Maria Bronnikova, Martin Janovský, Anna Andreetta, Brad Sion
Soils are the expression of complex relationships among soil-forming factors, a notion commonly referred to as the functional-factorial model of soil development. This basic principle of soil genesis drives the concept of soil memory: the capability of soil systems to retain information about environmental conditions and other intrinsic features (i.e., environmental indicators). As such, soils are valuable records of current and past environmental conditions that enable us to study their relevance as environmental archives among more common and extensively studied examples (e.g., sediments, glaciers and underground ice, speleothems, tree rings, etc.). Contemporary polygenetic surface soils (those that have endured one or more environmental changes), along with paleosols, offer valuable insights into the reconstruction of environmental factors present during their formation. These materials also help us unravel the relative influences of various environmental conditions, both local and regional, on soil formation. Despite the increasing consideration of palaeosols in sedimentary successions, studies of soils as part of soil-sedimentary record/memory are still underrepresented. This session is open to all contributions focused on the studies of palaeosols and contemporary polygenetic soils, including anthropogenic and anthropogenically affected ones, with a particular focus on their environmental history. We also encourage research related to soils, pedosediments, and soil materials from archaeological sites, and consider paleoenvironmental soil studies that blend novel methods of analysis, such as a variety biomarkers and isotopes, high‐resolution visual recording in micromorphology, high-resolution X-ray tomography, micro-XRF for high-resolution chemical mapping, SIMS and NanoSIMS high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry), Raman Microspectroscopy, etc.


Keywords: palaeosols, polygenetic soils, anthropogenic effects, archaeological soils
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