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Landscape-geochemical assessment of content of natural hydrocarbons in arctic and subarctic soils (Komi Republic, Russia)

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The assessment of the natural background of the hydrocarbon (HC) concentrations in soils is an urgent task, the solution of which will allow us to objectively determine soil pollution and promptly introduce restrictions on industrial technologies of oil production, transportation, and refining. The purpose of this work is to assess the background content and to establish patterns of accumulation of HC in the Arctic and Subarctic soils taking into account the landscape-geochemical characteristics of the territories. The concentration of HC in soil samples was determined from the values of the fluorescence intensity of the hexane extract. It has been established that the accumulation and distribution of HC in the soil cover depend on several factors: the topography of the territory and the soil origin, the particle size distribution of the soil-forming rocks, and the content of soil organic matter. The maximum HC content was detected in the soils of accumulative landscapes, while it is minimum—in soils of eluvial territories. The profile differentiation of HC is more pronounced in soils formed on loams and less on sandy rocks. A database and a map of the distribution of natural HC in soils of the Komi Republic have been created.

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I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their insightful reviews.

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The reported study was funded by Federal budget (Institute of Biology KomiSC UrB RAS) (No. AAAA-A17-117122290011-5) and RFBR according to the research project No. 18-05-60195 (No. АААА-А18-118062090029-0).

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  1. Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia, 167982

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This paper was selected from the 2nd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), Tunisia 2019

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Lodygin, E. Landscape-geochemical assessment of content of natural hydrocarbons in arctic and subarctic soils (Komi Republic, Russia). Arab J Geosci 13, 749 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-05751-7

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