Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits (Special Publication 27 of the IAS)

Introduction.
Problems, progress and future research concerningpalaeoweatherings and palaeosurfaces.
Geochemistry and isotopes.
Weathering, rainwater, and atmosphere chemistry: example andmodelling of granite weathering, in present conditions, in aCO2-rich, and in an anoxic palaeoatmosphere.
Stable carbon isotopes in palaeosol carbonates.
Palaeoenvironment, palaeoclimate and stable carbon isotopes ofPalaezoic red bed palaeosols, Appalachian Basin, USA andCanada.
Peculiar palaeoweathering types.
Diversity of the continental silicifications: Examples from theCainozoic deposits in the Paris Basin and neighbouringbasement.
Authigenic clay minerals in continental evaporiticenvironments.
Saprolite-bauxite facies of ferralitic duricrusts onpalaeosurfaces of former Pangea.
Karst bauxites: interfingering of deposition andpalaeoweathering.
Precambrian palaeosols: a view from the Canadian shield.
Regional palaeosurface and palaseoweatheringreconstructions.
Palaeolandscape reconstruction of the Southwestern MassifCentral (France).
Lateritization, geomorphology, and geodynamics of a passivecontinental margin: The Konkan and Kanara coastal lowlands ofwestern peninsular India.
Relief features and palaeoweathering remnants in formerlyglaciated Scandinavian basement areas.
Palaeosol sequences in floodplain environments: a hierarchicalapproach.
Carbonate-rich palaesols in the upper Cretaceous/Lower Palaegeneseries of the Provence basin (France).
Sedimentary infillings and development of major Tertiarypalaeodrainages of south-central Australia.
Weathering surfaces, laterite-derived sediments, and associatedmineral deposits in NE-Africa.