Established in 1961The Loess and Pedostratigraphy Working Group is the oldest INQUA focus group, founded in 1961 during the 6th INQUA Congress as a Sub-Commission on Loess Stratigraphy. The group has been active ever since its establishment, through the distribution of the Loess Letter (newsletter) in its early days. At present the Loess and Pedostratigraphy Working Group serves over one hundred members worldwide.
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Our GoalThe Loess and Pedostratigraphy Working Group connects a global scientific community that works collectively to better understand loess deposits and palaeosols worldwide. This unique group brings together researchers from a number of disciplines, including archaeology, geochemistry, geochronology (radiocarbon and luminescence dating), geology, geomorphology, palaeoclimate, pedology, paleoecology, stratigraphy, and tephrochronology. Due to the preservation of loess deposits worldwide these approaches are applied to multiple timescales, with research into sub-orbital as well as orbital timescales, Holocene to Early Pleistocene. Through these multidisciplinary collaborations the group aims to provide a better understanding of the Quaternary.
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