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Paleosols in upper permian sedimentary rocks, Sukhona river (Severnaya Dvina basin)

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Paleosols crop out in the Sukhona River valley as several members, up to 10 m thick, embedded into the Salarevo Formation sediments. Principal characteristics of paleosols include a dense network of root channels, indications of eluvial gley alteration, redistribution and formation of secondary carbonates represented by several generations, and formation of block-prismatic soil structure with specific clayey films at structural jointing faces. The paleosols are divided into a number of genetically interrelated horizons (from top to bottom): presumably organogenic accumulation (AElg), eluvial gley horizon (Elg), illuvial horizons (B1 and B2), illuvial gley horizon (Bg), and transitional horizons (ElBg and BElg). Paleosols were formed under conditions of a semiarid climate with sharp seasonal or secular and multisecular oscillations of atmospheric precipitation. Such soils point to specific ecological environments, which were existing in the northern semiarid belt of the Earth before greatest (in the Phanerozoic) biospheric crisis at the Permian-Triassic boundary.

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  1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 29, 109017, Moscow, Russia

    E. Yu. Yakimenko

  2. Moscow State University (MGU), 119899, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, Russia

    V. O. Targul’yan, M. P. Arefev & S. A. Inozemtsev

  3. Geological Institute (GIN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, 109017, Moscow, Russia

    N. M. Chumakov

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Yakimenko, E.Y., Targul’yan, V.O., Chumakov, N.M. et al. Paleosols in upper permian sedimentary rocks, Sukhona river (Severnaya Dvina basin). Lithol Miner Resour 35, 331–344 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782689

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