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Geoheritage and Geoconservation of Quaternary Geosites

edited by

Sebastiano Ettore Spoto

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2382 | Submission Open

Keywords: geoheritage; geological and geomorphological sites; geoconservation; quaternary geology; quaternary palaeontology collections; gemmology; quaternary volcanism; fluvial and landscape evolution; archaeological stratigraphy

Environmental Changes and Their Significance for Sustainability

edited by

Jef Vandenberghe

and

Slobodan B. Marković

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8413 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental change; hazard risk; sustainable land surface evolution; sustainable land surface processes

Quaternary Birds of the Planet of First, Ancient and Modern Humans

edited by

Zlatozar Boev

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3382 | Submission Open

Keywords: diversity; extinction; utilization; art; resource; ranges; domestication; decline

From Source to Sink: Sedimentary Archives and Its Palaeo-Environmental Implications During Quaternary

edited by Yan Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5098 | Submission Open

Keywords: sedimentology; seismic and sequence stratigraphy; chronology; facies analysis; sedimentary record; catastrophic sedimentation; micropaleontology sedimentology

Beyond Bones: Digestive Taphonomy and Coprolites from Quaternary

edited by

Montserrat Sanz

Jean-Philip Brugal

and

Philippe Fosse

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open

Keywords: coprolites; palaeoenvironment; carnivores; taphonomy; digested bones; quaternary; human–carnivore interactions

Interdisciplinary Research into Cultural and Biological Transformations in the Paleolithic Period: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ran Barkai

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2325 | Submission Open

Keywords: paleolithic; transformations; adaptation; cultural and biological evolution; lithic technologies; human evolution; faunal turnovers; symbolic behavior

Recent Advances in Multi-Proxy Analysis of Quaternary Sediments for Deciphering Climate Oscillations

edited by

Yijia Liang

and

Shushuang Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-proxy; Quaternary; paleoclimate; climate oscillations; chronostratigraphy

Advances in Paleopathology and Paleohistology in Quaternary Vertebrates

edited by

Maria Rita Palombo

Marco Zedda

Ramona Babosova

and Vijay Sathé

submission deadline 20 Feb 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3368 | Submission Open

Keywords: Quaternary; pathology; bone tissues; histology; mammals; reptiles; Aves; life history; extinction

Advancing the Study of Quaternary Rock Art: New Approaches in Geochronology, Pigment Analysis, and Analytical Technologies

edited by George Nash,

Hipolito Collado Giraldo

, Sara Garcês and

Hugo Gomes

submission deadline 20 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: prehistory; rock art; geochronology; pigment analysis; DNA; 3D techniques; AI

Event Deposition and Its Geological and Climatic Implications

edited by Lei Zhang, Chunqing Sun and Shuang Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3747 | Submission Open

Keywords: event stratigraphy; volcanic eruption events; paleoseismic events; paleoflood events; paleolandslide; drought events

Rock and Soil Damage Characterization, Monitoring and Early Warning of Geohazards

edited by

Wei Huang

Chunlin Zhong

, Lifang Pai and Yinggang Xu

submission deadline 20 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock and soil damage; damage characterization; real‑time monitoring; early warning; geohazards; quaternary period

Fossil Evidence of Climate Forcing in Human Evolution

edited by Darío Fidalgo and Sara García-Morato

submission deadline 20 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: fossil record; climate forcing; human evolution; palaeobiology; archaeology; palaeoclimatology; palaeoecology

East Asian Environmental and Climatic Evolution During the Quaternary: Records, Mechanisms, and Implications

edited by Lingkang Chen and Fangming Zeng

submission deadline 15 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: environment change; climate change; speleothems/stalagmites; eolian deposits; soil deposit; lake sediments; peat deposits; marine sediments; ice cores; tree rings; fluvial archives; coastal sediments; paleotemperature reconstruction; paleoprecipitation reconstruction; monsoon intensity; weathering history; anthropogenic activity and land use change

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