There have been a number of studies on the Holocene loess and its significance in past climatic change. The present paper reports new evidence from micromorphology, heavy minerals, pollen and mechanical and chemical properties of typical "modern agricultural soils", i.e . Loutu soil and Heilutu soil on the Loess Plateau. It shows that the "agricultural soils", which developed in the warm wet period of the Middle Holocene, consist of a paleosol underlain by the Malan loess and an overlain cover layer of ...
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