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Spatial genetic sequences of soil horizons and soil profiles on the Russian and West Siberian plains

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The analysis of spatial sequences of genetic horizons as elementary constituents of soil profiles in relation to the factors of soil formation makes it possible to draw several new conclusions about the geneses and geography of soils in the north of the Russian and West Siberian plains. An important role in the spatial diversity of automorphic soils of these territories belongs to the texture of the parent materials and to the stratification of the latter within the soil profiles. The study of spatial soil sequences with due respect for the character of the parent materials suggests that the popular notion about the ideal bioclimatic zonality of the soils within these vast plains should be refined. It is shown that this notion is grounded in the phenomenon of good agreement between the bioclimatic zonality and the sedimentation zonality (or, according to I.A. Sokolov, the striated pattern of different types of sediments) in the studied territory. In turn, the sedimentation zonality was shaped by the directed movements of Quaternary glaciers over the plains from the north, northwest, or northeast.

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  1. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.D. Tonkonogov, 2008, published in Pochvovedenie, 2008, No. 6, pp. 645–654.

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Tonkonogov, V.D. Spatial genetic sequences of soil horizons and soil profiles on the Russian and West Siberian plains. Eurasian Soil Sc. 41, 565–573 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422930806001X

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