Surface Runoff and Snowmelt Infiltration into the Soil on Plowlands in the Forest-Steppe and Steppe Zones of the East European Plain

Abstract The soil cover of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the East European Plain is characterized by diverse soil combinations revealed during large-scale and detailed soil mapping against the background of a traditional zonal sequence of dominant automorphic soils alternating from the north to the south and clearly displayed on small-scale soil maps. The composition, configuration and functioning of particular soil cover patterns are determined by the soil forming factors acting within a given area. The elementary soil areas (detailed scale) and elementary soil cover patterns maps (large scale) of the Central Russian, Kalach, and Volga Uplands are created by both traditional and digital soil mapping methods. Low-contrasting soil combinations with the background Haplic Chernozems (Loamic or Clayic, Pachic) alternating with zooturbated Haplic Chernozems (Loamic or Clayic, Pachic) on convex elements of the microtopography and Luvic Chernozems (Loamic or Clayic, Pachic) on concave elements of the microtopography prevails under conditions of thick clay loamy parent materials and free drainage. Under conditions of shallow embedding by low-permeable clayey sediments, the soil cover includes Chernozems or Chernic Phaeozems with stagnic features in some part of the soil profile or even Mollic Stagnosols. The presence of shrink-swell clays of different ages leads to the formation of Bathyvertic Chernozems, Vertic Chernozems, Vertic Chernic Phaeozems and/or Pellic Vertisols. The presence of soluble salts in the parent material leads to the development of solonetzic soil complexes consisting of Protosodic or Sodic Chernozems and different types of Solonetzes.

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Dataset on the soils of medieval archaeological monuments in the forest-steppe zone of the East European plain

Data in Brief ◽

10.1016/j.dib.2020.105555 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 105555

Author(s):

Fatima Kurbanova ◽

Tatiana Puzanova ◽

Olga Rudenko ◽

Gennadiy Starodubtsev

Keyword(s):

Steppe Zone ◽

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

East European

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The Spread of the Neolithic in the South East European Plain: Radiocarbon Chronology, Subsistence, and Environment

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200056095 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 783-793 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Pavel M Dolukhanov ◽

Anvar Shukurov ◽

Kate Davison ◽

Graeme Sarson ◽

Natalia P Gerasimenko ◽

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Keyword(s):

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

East European ◽

The North ◽

Lower Volga ◽

Archaeological Materials ◽

Caspian Lowland ◽

Early Farming ◽

Radiocarbon Chronology

Newly available radiocarbon dates show the early signs of pottery-making in the North Caspian area, the Middle-Lower Volga, and the Lower Don at 8–7 kyr cal BC. Stable settlements, as indicated by “coeval subsamples,” are recognized in the Middle-Lower Volga (Yelshanian) at 6.8 kyr cal BC and the Caspian Lowland at about 6 kyr cal BC. The ages of the Strumel-Gostyatin, Surskian, and Bug-Dniesterian sites are in the range of 6.6–4.5 kyr BC, overlapping with early farming entities (Starčevo-Körös-Criş and Linear Pottery), whose influence is perceptible in archaeological materials. Likewise, the 14C-dated pollen data show that the spread of early pottery-making coincided with increased precipitation throughout the forest-steppe area.

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PALEOLANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON THE STUDY OF A BURIED SOIL OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE FOREST-STEPPE AREA OF THE EAST EUROPEAN PLAIN

10.18509/gbp.2020.26 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tatiana Puzanova ◽

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Fatima Kurbanova ◽

Gennady Starodubtsev ◽

Olga Rudenko ◽

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Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

East European ◽

Buried Soil ◽

The Middle Ages

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Soil-geographical zonation of Lviv oblast: structure and principles

Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography ◽

10.30970/vgg.2018.52.10191 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 251-265

Author(s):

Stepan Poznyak ◽

Ihor Papish ◽

Halyna Ivaniuk ◽

Taras Yamelynets

Keyword(s):

Spatial Organization ◽

Soil Cover ◽

Spatial Arrangement ◽

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Broadleaf Forest ◽

East European ◽

Mountain Belt ◽

Carpathian Mountain ◽

Soil Cover Structure

The scheme of soil-geographical zonation of Lviv oblast is developed on the principles of structural approach to the spatial organization of soil cover. Criteria for allocation of the ranked taxonomic units, their spatial and genetic properties are qualitative and genetic indicators of soil cover with the analysis of the spatial arrangement of soil combinations and structures. The following taxonomic units are identified in the proposed scheme of soil-geographical zonation: soil-geographic kraina (soil-geographic country), soil-bioclimatic zona/poias (soil-geographic zone/mountain belt), krai (region), okrug (county or mountainous soil region), rayon (district), masyv (massif). A mandatory criterion for all taxonomic units of soil-geographical zonation is the type of soil cover mesostructures (spatial-geometric characteristics of elemental soil areals and their spatial structures, as well as the dominated class of soil combinations). Two soil-geographic kraina (countries) are identified within Lviv oblast: the East European Plain and the Carpathians; three soil-bioclimatic zones: moraine-sander (popilnyakova) zone of mixed forests, broadleaf forest, forest-steppe (loess) and mountain-brownsoil zone; six soil krai: Malopoliskyi, Volynskyi, Roztots’ko-Opilskyi, Zahidnopodilskyi, Peredkarpatskyi highland, the Carpathian mountain; 13 soil counties and 4 regions. Key words: zonation, soil cover structure, zone, krai, okrug, Lviv oblast.

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Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on soils buried under Scythian fortification in the southern forest-steppe area of the East European Plain

Quaternary International ◽

10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.016 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 502 ◽

pp. 197-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Alexey Rusakov ◽

Alexander Makeev ◽

Olga Khokhlova ◽

Pavel Kust ◽

Marina Lebedeva ◽

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Keyword(s):

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction ◽

East European

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Periglacial gully erosion on the east European plain and its recent analog at the Yamal peninsula

GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY ◽

10.24057/2071-9388-2019-01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 183-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alexey Yu. Sidorchuk ◽

Tatiana A. Matveeva

Keyword(s):

River Basin ◽

Vegetation Cover ◽

Surface Runoff ◽

The Arctic ◽

Yamal Peninsula ◽

East European Plain ◽

East European ◽

Arctic Regions ◽

Dry Valley ◽

The Yamal Peninsula

The net of dry valleys, gullies and shallow hollows is typical for the East European Plain. Dense vegetation usually covers their bottoms and slopes, so the modern erosion there is negligible in the pristine conditions. This erosion landscape formed in periglacial conditions during the terminations of the last two glaciations. The same kind of the erosion landscape is typical for the Arctic regions, especially for the Yamal, Gydan, and Tazovsky peninsulas. The size and the density of such valleys and gullies are quite similar to those existing on the East European Plain, but these erosion features are active there, especially in the conditions of natural or anthropogenic deterioration of the vegetation cover. As the density of dry valley network is an indicator of hydrological conditions in the river basin, the landscapes of the Arctic regions can be used as the modern analogs of the territories with the past periglacial erosion.The recent hydrological characteristics of the west-central Yamal Peninsula were used to estimate the parameters of erosion network at the Khoper River basin, formed in periglacial conditions. For these purposes gully erosion and thermoerosion model GULTEM was verified and calibrated based on the observation of the modern processes on the Yamal Peninsula. The meteorological characteristics were taken from ERA-Interim Reanalysis grid. To calculate the flow characteristics a synthetic hydrological model was used. These verified and calibrated models were used to find the most suitable characteristics of climate and vegetation cover, which can explain the structure and density of the Perepolye dry valley in the Khoper River basin. This dry valley with the main trunk length of 6400 m was formed at the end of the Late Valdai Glaciation (MIS 2). The conditions required for the formation of a periglacial gully of such length were estimated with the GULTEM model. The critical velocity of erosion initiation was within the range 0.8-0.9 m/s, and the surface runoff depth was close to the recent one on the Yamal Peninsula (330 mm). The system of shallow hollows in the Perepolye catchment (the gullies formed at the end of the Moscow Glaciation, MIS 6) is denser and longer than the dry valley system, and the modelling estimates showed that the surface runoff during that period was almost 3.3 times more than the recent one on the Yamal Peninsula.

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