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Principles of soil mapping of a megalopolis with St. Petersburg as an example

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For the first time, a soil map of St. Petersburg has been developed on a scale of 1 : 50000 using MicroStation V8i software. The legend to this map contains more than 60 mapping units. The classification of urban soils and information on the soil cover patterns are principally new elements of this legend. New concepts of the urbanized soil space and urbopedocombinations have been suggested for soil mapping of urban territories. The typification of urbopedocombinations in St. Petersburg has been performed on the basis of data on the geometry and composition of the polygons of soils and nonsoil formations. The ratio between the areas of soils and nonsoil formations and their spatial distribution patterns have been used to distinguish between six types of the urbanized soil space. The principles of classification of the soils of urban territories have been specified, and a separate order of pedo-allochthonous soils has been suggested for inclusion into the Classification and Diagnostic System of Russian Soils (2004). Six types of pedo-allochthonous soils have been distinguished on the basis of data on their humus and organic horizons and the character of the underlying mineral substrate.

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7-9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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  2. Dokuchaev Central Soil Science Museum, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Birzhevoi pr. 6, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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Original Russian Text © B.F. Aparin, E.Yu. Sukhacheva, 2014, published in Pochvovedenie, 2014, No. 7, pp. 790–802.

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Aparin, B.F., Sukhacheva, E.Y. Principles of soil mapping of a megalopolis with St. Petersburg as an example. Eurasian Soil Sc. 47, 650–661 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229314070035

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