Document downloaded from: http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/65090 The final publication is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.046 Copyright cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Elsevier, 2016 Està subjecte a una llicència de Reconeixement-NoComercial- SenseObraDerivada 4.0 de Creative Commons CATENA 147: 372–385 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.046 1 Late Quaternary pedogenesis of lacustrine terraces in 2 Gallocanta Lake, NE Spain 3 E. Luna a,*, C. Castañeda a, F.J. Gracia b, R. Rodríguez-Ochoa c 4 a Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, EEAD-CSIC, Av. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, 5 Spain 6 b Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain 7 c Departamento de Medio Ambiente y Ciencias del Suelo, Universitat de Lleida, Av. Rovira 8 Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain 9 *Corresponding author. E-mail address:
[email protected] (E. Luna). 10 11 Abstract 12 Transitional areas of lake margins are complex environments whose evolution is strongly 13 controlled by flooding frequency and persistence. The edaphic development of lacustrine 14 marginal environments can be reconstructed by combining detailed geomorphological analysis 15 with a systematic edaphic study of toposequences. This approach has been applied to a set of 16 recent lacustrine terraces in the downwind palustrine area of the Gallocanta saline lake, located 17 in a semiarid area in NE Spain. Up to five terraces, from 1.6 to 4.5 m above the lake bottom, 18 have been identified and mapped using stereo photointerpretation and airborne LiDAR data.