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This study concerns the investigation of the soil cover of tundra and forest-tundra belts in the western part of the Putorana Plateau. The substantive-genetic classification of soils has been developed on the basis of a large body of morphological and physicochemical data. Subaerial aeolian deposits are widespread in the mountain tundra belt. The largest areas are occupied by cryometamorphic soils (granuzems) and organic-accumulative soils along with abrazems. Cryoturbated soils (cryozems) prevail in the lowland foresttundra area, where they develop on sandy loamy glaciolacustrine deposits.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Senkov, 2014, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 6, pp. 845–854.
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Senkov, A.A. Peculiarities of soil cover in the subalpine belt of the Putorana Plateau. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 7, 628–635 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425514060122
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