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Upper Permian paleosols of the East European Platform: Diagnostics of pedogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction

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A vertical sequence of seven buried paleosols composing the Klimovsk pedocomplex was studied in the basin of the Sukhona River (Vologda oblast). These paleosols were formed according to the accumulative model of pedogenesis (pedosedimentation model). They had monogenetic profiles with eluvial-gley, structural, and carbonate-illuvial types of differentiation. The set of elementary pedogenic processes responsible for the development of these soils included gleyzation in the surface horizon and around the roots, the inter- and intrahorizon translocation and segregation of iron, structuring, humification, weathering, lessivage, the migration and segregation of carbonates, and the synthesis of palygorskite and analcime. The studied paleosol profiles make it possible to reconstruct seven pedogenetic stages; each of them lasted for about n × 102–103 years. The paleosols were formed on a flat lacustrine-alluvial plain with drying lakes and temporary streams. The stages of inundation and water stagnation on the surface alternated with the stages of drying of the territory. The climate was warm, with well-pronounced wet and dry seasons. Against this general climatic background, arid climatic epochs marked by the development of calcic paleosols alternated with humid climatic epochs marked by the development of noncalcareous paleosols.

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  2. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, per. Staromonetnyi 29, Moscow, 119017, Russia

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Inozemtsev, V.O. Targulian, 2010, published in Pochvovedenie, 2010, No. 2, pp. 143–156.

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Inozemtsev, S.A., Targulian, V.O. Upper Permian paleosols of the East European Platform: Diagnostics of pedogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction. Eurasian Soil Sc. 43, 127–140 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422931002002X

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