Soil-geographical zonation of Lviv oblast: structure and principles

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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Soil cover patterns in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the East European Plain

Soil Science Annual ◽

10.2478/ssa-2019-0018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 (3) ◽

pp. 198-210

Author(s):

Nikolay Khitrov ◽

Maria Smirnova ◽

Nikolai Lozbenev ◽

Ekaterina Levchenko ◽

Vasiliy Gribov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Soil Cover ◽

Parent Material ◽

Soil Mapping ◽

East European Plain ◽

Small Scale ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

East European ◽

The North ◽

Haplic Chernozems

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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Soil and ecological division into districts of the Baikal region

Geodesy and Cartography ◽

10.22389/0016-7126-2018-940-10-54-64 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 940 (10) ◽

pp. 54-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

I.A. Belozertseva ◽

A.A. Sorokovoj

Keyword(s):

Baikal Region ◽

Soil Cover ◽

Soil Formation ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Leading Role ◽

Soil Cover Structure ◽

Reflecting Surface ◽

Heat And Moisture ◽

Made In

On the basis of long-term researches of soils in the territory of Russia and Mongolia soil and ecological division into districts of the Baikal region is carried out. At division into districts the whole set of an environment of soil formation was considered. On the map of soil and ecological division into districts 13 mountain, mid-mountain, low-mountain taiga, foothill, hollow-valley, forest-steppe and steppe provinces reflecting surface device originality as the ratio of balance of heat and moisture forming a basis to zoning is shown against the background of difficult orography are allocated. In total 42 districts on lithologic-geomorphological features are allocated. In formation of distinctions of a soil cover of these provinces the leading role is played by bioclimatic factors and inside them the lithologic-geomorphological ones. In the view of structural approach of the district they are considered as territories with a certain natural change of several types of the soil cover structure caused by features of a relief and the parent rock. The map is made in the MapInfo program. It is revealed that on ill-defined width zoning of soils the vertical one which has a greater influence on soils of this region is imposed. Soils of the Baikal region are not similar to the soils located at the same latitude of the flat European territory of Russia. Zone soils of this territory are specific and original.

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

Eurasian Soil Science ◽

10.1134/s1064229318010039 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 66-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

A. T. Barabanov ◽

S. V. Dolgov ◽

N. I. Koronkevich ◽

V. I. Panov ◽

A. I. Petel’ko

Keyword(s):

Surface Runoff ◽

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

East European

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Landscape-and-climate dynamics and land use in Late Holocene forest-steppe ecotone of East European Plain (upper Don River Basin case study)

Quaternary International ◽

10.1016/j.quaint.2008.04.015 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 203 (1-2) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

E. Yu. Novenko ◽

M.P. Glasko ◽

O.V. Burova

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

River Basin ◽

Late Holocene ◽

Climate Dynamics ◽

East European Plain ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

East European ◽

Don River

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SOIL COVER PATTERNS WITH VERTIC SOLONETZ AT THE EAST-EUROPEAN PLAIN

19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2019, Informatics, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing ◽

10.5593/sgem2019/2.2/s11.118 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Nikolay Khitrov

Keyword(s):

Soil Cover ◽

East European Plain ◽

East European

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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 ◽

...

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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