Abstract Understanding and quantifying the processes and geochemical cycles associated with catchment erosion, the development of soils and weathering horizons, and terrestrial habitat change beyond the scales of modern observations remain challenging. Such research, however, has become increasingly important to help predict future landscape change in light of increasing land use and rapid global warming. We herein review organic and inorganic geochemical tools applied to depositional archives to better understand various aspects of landscape evolution on geological time scales. We highlight the potentials and limitations of inorganic geochemical analytical methods, such as major element geochemistry, metal and radiogenic isotopes, and in-situ cosmogenic nuclides, as qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative proxies for the transformation of bedrock material via regolith and soils to sediments. We also show how stable isotope geochemistry applied to lacustrine endogenic carbonates can be used to infer rock-water interactions, vegetation change, and soil development in limestone-rich catchments. Proxies focusing on the silicilastic element of sediment formation, transport and deposition are ideally combined with organic geochemical proxies for vegetation change and soil organic matter evolution in a catchment to gain a comprehensive picture of the Critical Zone’s evolution over time. Multi-proxy and multidisciplinary research combining organic and inorganic geochemical techniques from several sedimentary archives in the same catchment have high potential to provide comprehensive information on Quaternary landscape evolution and thus improve the robustness of associated forecasting models.

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推断沉积档案中第四纪气候变化和土地利用的景观响应的地球化学方法：综述

摘要 理解和量化与流域侵蚀、土壤和风化层的发展以及超出现代观测尺度的陆地栖息地变化相关的过程和地球化学循环仍然具有挑战性。然而，鉴于土地利用增加和全球变暖迅速，此类研究对于帮助预测未来的景观变化变得越来越重要。我们在此回顾了应用于沉积档案的有机和无机地球化学工具，以更好地了解地质时间尺度上景观演变的各个方面。我们强调无机地球化学分析方法的潜力和局限性，例如主要元素地球化学、金属和放射性同位素以及原位宇宙核素，作为定性、半定量、基岩材料通过风化层和土壤转化为沉积物的定量指标。我们还展示了应用于湖泊内生碳酸盐的稳定同位素地球化学如何用于推断富含石灰石的集水区的岩水相互作用、植被变化和土壤发育。专注于沉积物形成、运输和沉积的硅质元素的代理与流域中植被变化和土壤有机质演化的有机地球化学代理完美结合，以获得关键带随时间演变的全面图景。