Transformation functions of soil color and climate |
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Authors: | Yang Shengli Fang Xiaomin Li Jijun An Zhisheng Chen Shiyue Hitoshi Fukusawa |
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Affiliation: | 1.MOE National Laboratory of Western China’s Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China ;2.State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 710054, Xi’an, China ;3.Department Division of Geography, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan ; |
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Abstract: | Measurements on modern soil color suggest well functional relationships between the soil formation process and the present climatic factors. The redness and yellowness of soil are chiefly caused by the contents of hematite and fullonite, and their correlations to climate are the best in humid regions in tropic and warm temperate regions. The lightness of soil mainly correlates to the organic accumulation, humification and carbonatization processes, and its correlation to climate can only be found in the humid-arid extratropical belt. The humidity and surface roughness of soil have so strong influence on soil color that there are great errors on the measurement of colorness in the field. The study on soil colors of typical loess sections shows that soil color can record the characteristics of Asia monsoon and the global climatic fluctuations well at millennial and ten-thousand-year scales. It can also indicate the pedogenesis and the climatic characteristics which magnetic susceptibility could not be reflected in humidity areas. Therefore, soil color can be used as a new climatic proxy which is easy and quick to measure, and will make an active influence on the study of global changes, geomorphology and Quaternary. |
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