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Automorphic loamy soils developing from different parent materials in the central and southern parts of the Timan Ridge are described. Pale-podzolic soil and iron-illuvial texture-differentiated svetlozems are developed from silty covering loams underlain by moraine deposits. Podzolic, iron-illuvial, cryometamorphic, and clay-illuvial horizons are distinguished in the svetlozems; soils with such a complex morphology have been described in the taiga zone of European Russia for the first time. Humus-iron-illuvial podzols are developed from acidic slates. Raw-humus rzhavozems (iron-metamorphic soils) are developed from substrates with the high content of pebbles of mafic rocks. Such soils are typical of the middle taiga zone of Central Siberia and the south of Far East. In the northwestern part of European Russia, these soils occupy small areas.
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Original Russian Text © E.V. Zhangurov, V.D. Tonkonogov, I.V. Zaboeva, 2008, published in Pochvovedenie, 2008, No. 12, pp. 1413–1422.
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Zhangurov, E.V., Tonkonogov, V.D. & Zaboeva, I.V. Automorphic soils of the central and southern Timan Ridge. Eurasian Soil Sc. 41, 1247–1255 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229308120016
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