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Assessment of soil disturbance upon oil and gas prospecting in western Kamchatka

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The morphological features of the soils and the degree of their mechanical disturbance within the oil-and-gas prospecting area in western Kamchatka were studied. A scale based on the status of the topsoil horizons was suggested for assessing the mechanical disturbance of the soils. It was found that the minimum mechanical disturbance is typical of the automorphic light ocherous volcanic soils, whereas the maximum disturbance is typical of the hydromorphic peat bog soils.

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  1. Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlosk-Kamchatskii, 683000, Russia

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Kazakov, 2010, published in Pochvovedenie, 2010, No. 2, pp. 235–245.

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Kazakov, N.V. Assessment of soil disturbance upon oil and gas prospecting in western Kamchatka. Eurasian Soil Sc. 43, 216–225 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229310020122

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