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Aluminum compounds in soil solutions and their migration in podzolic soils on two-layered deposits

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The fractional composition of aluminum compounds was studied in soil solutions obtained using vacuum lysimeters from loamy podzolic soils on two-layered deposits. The concentration of aluminum was estimated in brooks and a river draining the area with a predominance of these soils. In soil solutions, the concentration of aluminum was experimentally determined in the following compounds: (1) organic and inorganic monomers, (2) stable complexes with HAs and FAs together with polymers, and (3) the most stable complexes with HAs and FAs together with fine-crystalline and colloidal compounds. The total Al concentration in soil solutions from forest litter was 0.111–0.175 mmol/l and decreased with depth to 0.05 mmol/l and lower in solutions from the IIBD horizons. More than 90% of the Al in the solutions was bound into complexes with organic ligands. Some amount of Al in solution could occur in aluminosilicate sols. The translocation of Al complexes from the litter through the AE horizon to the podzolic horizon was accompanied by an increase in the ratio between the Al concentration in fraction 2 and the C concentration in the solution. The concentrations of Altot in the surface waters varied in the range from 0.015 to 0.030 mmol/l. Most of the Al came to the surface waters from the litter and AE horizons and partially from the podzolic horizon due to the lateral runoff along the waterproof IIBD horizon. Approximate calculations showed that the recent annual removal of Al from the AE and E horizons with the lateral runoff was 7 to 560 mg (3–21 mmol) from 1 m2.

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Original Russian Text © I.I. Tolpeshta, T.A. Sokolova, 2009, published in Pochvovedenie, 2009, No. 1, pp. 29–41.

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Tolpeshta, I.I., Sokolova, T.A. Aluminum compounds in soil solutions and their migration in podzolic soils on two-layered deposits. Eurasian Soil Sc. 42, 24–35 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229309010049

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