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G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pavel G. Panin</p><p>Moscow</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">pgpanin@igras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Timireva</surname><given-names>S N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Svetlana N. Timireva</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Morozova</surname><given-names>T. D.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Tatyana D. Morozova</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Velichko</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Andrey A. Velichko</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>28</day><month>03</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>34</fpage><lpage>62</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Panin P.G., Timireva S.N., Morozova T.D., Velichko A.A., 2019</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Panin P.G., Timireva S.N., Morozova T.D., Velichko A.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Panin P.G., Timireva S.N., Morozova T.D., Velichko A.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/663">https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/663</self-uri><abstract><p>In this paper we focused on the micromorphology of the Late and Middle Pleistocene paleosols exposed in twelve loess-paleosol sequences sections in the central part of the East European Plain. Each studied paleosol complex known as Mesin (MIS 5), Kamenka (MIS 6 (8) - 7 (9)), and Inzhavino (MIS 8 (10) - 9 (11)) pedocomplexes (PCs) consists typically of two members, the earlier - main - phase of the soil development taking place during an interglacial, and the later one - at the subsequent interstadial time. Interglacial paleosols formation is associated with the thermal optimum of climatic macrocycles and corresponds to conditions close to modern in the territory under consideration. Interstadial paleosols formation characterizes the intervals within the glacial period, accompanied by an increase in heat and moisture. However, the heat supply of such intervals did not reach modern level in this region (Velichko and Morozova 2015). As follows from the analysis of the soil micromorphology over the studied area, the soil microstructure experienced notable changes under changing latitudinal zonality. During the interglacial periods clay coatings and Fe-Mn pedofeatures dominated the soil microfabric; in the south loess-paleosol sequences coatings are in negligible quantities, Fe-Mn pedofeatures decrease in amount, and carbonate pedofeatures appear instead. In the microfabric of the interstadial paleosols, Fe-Mn pedofeatures are abundant, but unlike interglacial paleosols, the coatings are rare. Basically, the coatings are humus-clayey in composition, but in the more southern sections coatings are absent.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Loess</kwd><kwd>loess-paleosol sequences</kwd><kwd>interglacial</kwd><kwd>interstadial</kwd><kwd>morphology</kwd><kwd>soil</kwd><kwd>climate</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">Micromorphological studies of the Sebryakovo-Mikhailovka section, State Task № 0148-2019-0005 (Registration Number 01201352491); Spasskaya I.I.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Agadjanian A.K. and Glushankova N.I. (2017). Quaternary stratigraphy and developmental history of the central Russian periglacial-loessal province. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 25(4), pp. 445-462.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Agadjanian A.K. and Glushankova N.I. (2017). 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