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Recently, global warming ranks one of the highest issues of our time. Soil, as a record of the past climate change and environmental evolution, could be found on the plateaus, plains and mountains. It preserves numerous information about warm, cool, dry, wet, even cold stages in its own manner. Although it suffered severe human renovation over the past millennium, some of the undisturbed soils could be applied to recognize the geological warm or cool period.

Red clay, plinthosol, loess and palaeosol are significant and excellent geo-ecological archives. The main concept of this special issue includes relevant aspect of deposition and weathered surface material, including palaeosol analyses to reconstruct palaeo-environmental evolution.

What could we learn from the archives of palaeosol, plinthosol or loess? What did the ecosystem and environment like when the climate is warmer or cooler? What kind of environment would be more suitable for human beings? Is global warming as terrible as some reports? The aim of this special issue is to present and debate a series of progress in soil records and global warming, contributing new insights of palaeo-climate evolution and its environmental effects and enhanced geochronology of sequences of palaeosols. This special issue will be relevant to teachers or researchers working in the range of interdisciplinary areas including pedology, global warming, Quaternary sciences, e.g. palaeo-climatology and sedimentology.

In this Special Issue, we welcome both research and review papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Loess and palaeosol
• Plinthosol, red clay, vermiculate red clay or reticulate red clay
• Global warming and its environmental effects
• Soil micromorphology and its palaeo-environmental significance
• Pollen assemblages and their relationships to palaeo-environment

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