The integrative pedological and sedimentary study was carried out in a Holocene loess profiles on the Zhouyuan loess tableland in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province. The field investigation and the measurement of magnetic susceptibility, pH values and grain-size distribution has reveled the variations of the pedological environment during the last {11 500} years. Corresponding to the Holocene climatic optimum ({8 500}~{3 100} a BP), Paleosol S_(0) was developed. The analytical results indicate that this soil i...