Abstracts of Symposium 55 and some papers from other related Symposia.

As not many of Commission members attended XIV INQUA Congress in Berlin, we decided to include abstracts of Symposium 55 and some other abstracts, related to Paleopedological problematics into Commission Newsletter.

1. Pleistocene Climatic Changes Recorded by the Paleosols in Northwestern Bangladesh (M.Shafiqul ALAM)

2. Radiocarbon Age of East European Forest-steppe Holocene Paleosols (Alexander L. ALEXANDROVSKY)

3. Particular Types of Secondary CaCO3 Accumulations as Indicator of the Environment in Upper Pleistocene Loess Paleosoils of Europe (Judit BESZE-DEAK)

4. Late Quaternary Colluvium and Palaeosols in Kwazulu - Natal, South Africa: Evidence for Cyclical Accretion on Hillslopes (Greg BOTHA)

5. Pleistocene Climatic Records of East and Central Asia Based on Micromorphological and Mineralogical Indicators of Loess-Paleosol Sequences (Arnt BRONGER)

6. The Loess of Britain: Distribution, Stratigraphy and Origin (John A. CATT)

7. The Eolianities and the Related Paleosols of the Elba Island (Tyrrenian Sea - Central Italy). The Upper Pleistocene-Holocene Environmental Changes in the Mediterranean Area, as Recorded by Paleosols (Mauro CREMASCNI).

8. Paleosol Evolution and Environmental Change on the Northeastern Margins of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau Since 150,000 Years (Xiao-Min FANG)

9. A Pleistocene Climatic Record on the Basis of a Complete Loess-Paleosol Sequence in Central China (Paul HAESAERTS)

10. Paleosoils: Indicators of Environmental Changes in the Holocene (Igor V. IVANOV)

11. Mid and Late Pleistocene Paleopedology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Driftless Area, USA (Peter JACOBS)

12. Pedosedimentary Development and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the S1 Paleosol on the Northeastern Margin of the Qinqhai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau, China (Rob A. KEMP)

13. Soil Parent Material Sequences West of Moscow, Russia (Arno KLEBER)

14. Soil Belts in the Valleys of the Southern Slope of the Khangai Mountain, Mongolia (Alojzy KOWALKOWSKY)

15. Environment Reconstruction Based on Soil Characteristics of the Lower Cycles of the Archaeological Site of Wallertheim (Rheinhessen, Germany) - A Soilscape and Soil System Dynamics Approach (Roger LANGOHR)

16. Pedological Evidences of a Dramatic Environmental Change of the Easter Island. Study of a Reference Profile (Diko LINUS JACOB)

17. Buried Soil Horizons in the Profile of Surface Soils of the Russian Plain (Alexander O. MAKEEV)

18. Environmental and Climatic Implications of the Morphology of Recent and Paleosols from Loess Exposure at Basaharc, Hungary (Olga MOROZOVA)

19. Paleoenvironment Information Obtained from Magnetic Measurements in Pampean Loess and Soils (Paulina NABEL)

20. Pleistocene Palaeosols in Norway - Implications for Climate And Glacial Activity (Lars OLSEN)

21. Upper Quaternary Paleoclimatic Evolution of Northwestern Argentina (Jose M. SAYAGO)

22. Paleoclimatic Interpretation of a Loess-Paleosol Section in China Based on Mineral Magnetic Properties and on Calcium Carbonate Distribution (Michael SINGER)

23. Correlation of the Quaternary Pedostratigraphy from Western to Eastern Europe (Helmut E. STREMME)

24. Soils as a Recording System: Recent and Inherited Soil Memory (V. TARGULIAN)

25. Evidence for Abrupt Climate Change from the Magnetic Susceptibility Record of a New Loess/Paleosol Section in China (Jeff TENPAS)

26. Pleistocene Chronology and Climatology Based on Grainsize Analysis of a Classic Loess Sequence (China) (Jef VANDENBERGHE )

27. Paleosols on a Fluvial Terrace at Driekop, Lebowa, South Africa as Indicators of Climatic Changes During the Quaternary (E. VERSTER)

28. Soil Age Relationdhips and Age Correlations: Examples from the Chromosequence in the Ljubljana Basin, Slovenia (Natasha J. VIDIC)

29. Interpretation of Holocene Paleosols Derived from Volcanic Ash Fall Deposits in Japan (Makiko WATANABE)

30. Paleosol Horizons in the Quaternary Sediments of the Central Part of the Russian Plain, Russia (E.YAKIMENKO)

31. Geography of the Upper Quaternary Sediments in the Center of Russian Plain (Tatyana E. YAKUSHEVA)

32. The Paleohydrological Processes Differenciation in the Marine-Intracontinental (West-East) Eurasian Transect (Anatoly YAMSKIKH).

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