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Mineral composition of the fine-dispersed fractions of loess and soil processes developed in them

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Of the stable indications of elementary soil processes those are to be identified which are taking place in the fine-dispersed fractions of soil by transformations of layer silicates and primarily of interstratified formations.

Instrumental detection of transformations in the fine-dispersed material and of its migration along paleosol profiles allows a comparison with changes in recent soils and a judgement about the conditions of paleosol formation. This presumption is supported by data on the mineral composition of the fine-dispersed fractions of the Mikulino interglacial soils as a product of the first phase of pedogenesis within the Mezin loess- paleosol complex (Morozova et al. 1979) and, in general, of the loess-paleosol sequence developed above the ground moraine of the Don glacier tongue containing paleosols formed in the Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene (Velichko et al. 1965).

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  1. Soil Science Institute, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Pyzhevsky per. 7, 109017, Moscow, Russia

    Chizhikova Natalya P. (Prof. Dr.) & Gradusov Boris P. (Prof. Dr.)

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Chizhikova, N.P., Gradusov, B.P. Mineral composition of the fine-dispersed fractions of loess and soil processes developed in them. GeoJournal 36, 179–186 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00813164

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