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Soils, plants and climate of the eemian interglacial local landscapes of the Russian plain on base of biogenic silica analysis

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The Late Pleistocene sediments and soils are exposed in the paleogully (or buried balka) in the Aleksandrov quarry (central part of the European Plain and Middle Russian Upland) The previous Mikulino-Valdai climatic and erosional cycles are illustrated using silica biomorphic analysis. The distributions of sponge spicules and phytoliths have shown dynamic and stable changes during the formation of interglacial pedosediments (OIS 5e). Such changes in alluvial, deluvial and pedological processes formed local landscapes of the European Russia.

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Golyeva, A., Sycheva, S. Soils, plants and climate of the eemian interglacial local landscapes of the Russian plain on base of biogenic silica analysis. Eurasian Soil Sc. 43, 1569–1573 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229310130156

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