Loess in Eurasia: Spatial and Temporal Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 5370
Special Issue Editors
Interests: paleoclimate; geochemistry; sedimentology; loess; biomarkers; eolian dust
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of this Special Issue of Geosciences is to gather high-quality original and review articles on loess research with a focus on Eurasian climate evolution.
Loess covers vast areas of Eurasia, where it presents one of the key archives for understanding relations between climate change, dust dynamics, and environment of the past. This Special Issue aims to improve our understanding of climatic and environmental conditions inferred from loess in all regions of Eurasia during Quaternary, with a particular focus on the establishment of a coherent understanding of the Eurasian paleoclimate. With this Special Issue, we want to present the diversity within the field of loess research, including state-of-the-art research, the application of new techniques, studies bridging regional frontiers, as well as providing guidelines for future research. We welcome articles dealing with the paleoclimate, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, stratigraphy, paleopedology, paleoecology, geomorphology, geoarcheology, climate modeling and related topics. Contributions providing new methods in geochemistry and dating techniques are especially encouraged.
Dr. Igor Obreht
Dr. Tobias Sprafke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paleoclimate
- loess
- dust
- paleosols
- Eurasia
- multiproxy analyses
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