Soil ecosystem services, sustainability, valuation and management

P Pereira, I Bogunovic, M Muñoz-Rojas… - Current Opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Soils provide and regulate a large number of ecosystem services (ES) and play an important
role in sustaining humanity. The benefits we receive from soils are directly or indirectly …

A chronostratigraphic framework for the upper Stormberg Group: implications for the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa

EM Bordy, M Abrahams, GR Sharman, PA Viglietti… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The upper Stormberg Group (Elliot and Clarens formations) of the main Karoo
Basin is well-known for its fossil vertebrate fauna, comprising early branching members of …

Sedimentologist's guide for recognition, description, and classification of paleosols

NJ Tabor, TS Myers, LA Michel - Terrestrial depositional systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Paleosols are an important component of the terrestrial stratigraphic record and are
increasingly utilized in stratigraphic analyses and paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate …

Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China

Y Gao, DE Ibarra, JKC Rugenstein, J Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
From the latest Cretaceous (late Campanian to Maastrichtian,~ 75–66 Ma) to the earliest
Paleogene, fluctuations in greenhouse climate, inferred primarily from marine sediments …

The different climatic response of pedogenic hematite and ferrimagnetic minerals: Evidence from particle-sized modern soils over the Chinese Loess Plateau

X Gao, Q Hao, L Wang, F Oldfield, J Bloemendal… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, increasing interest in loess studies has focused on qualitative and
quantitative paleoclimatic reconstruction using the imperfect antiferromagnetic mineral …

Paleoenvironmental setting, mechanism and consequence of massive organic carbon burial in the Permian Junggar Basin, NW China

Y Gao, H Huang, H Tao, AR Carroll, J Qin… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Junggar Basin in northwestern China is a typical “walled” sedimentary basin
that has a prolonged basin evolution history from the Paleozoic to Cenozoic and is rich in …

Weathering pulses during glacial-interglacial transitions: insights from well-dated paleosols in the Azores volcanic province (Central North Atlantic)

F Hevia-Cruz, A Hildenbrand, ND Sheldon… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Volcanic islands evolve through complex interactions between volcano growth and surface
processes. Climate changes impact the physical and chemical processes that drive …

Maastrichtian-Cenozoic erosional history of the northern Peruvian Amazonian Andes implications for the Eastern Cordillera evolution (Huallaga Basin, northern Peru)

MA Custódio, M Roddaz, RV Santos, EL Dantas… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic Andean mountain building may have experienced
various phases of orogenesis in response to variations the dip angle of the subducting slab …

Regional Patterns in Miocene‐Pliocene Aridity Across the Chinese Loess Plateau Revealed by High Resolution Records of Paleosol Carbonate and Occluded …

TM Gallagher, L Serach, N Sekhon… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Paleosols preserved in the Red Clay depositional sequence of the Chinese Loess Plateau
record information about vegetation and regional hydrology responses to global …

The colonization of drylands by early vascular plants: Evidence from Early Devonian fossil soils and in situ plant traces from South China

J Xue, J Wang, P Huang, L Liu, T Huang, L Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mid-Paleozoic colonization of land by plants induced profound changes in the Earth's
surface environments. However, it remains poorly understood how the earliest vascular …