LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL

Results of 24 soil monoliths studying in the collection of Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum were analyzed in terms of diagnostic criteria in Russian soil classification system; these were chestnut, brown aridic, pale and cryoaridic soils. The topsoils of chestnut and brown aridic soils meet the criteri...

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Main Authors: E. A. Gurkova, M. A. Bronnikova, M. I. Gerasimova, E. Y. Sukhacheva, Y. V. Konoplyanikova
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Published: V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute 2019-09-01
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author E. A. Gurkova
M. A. Bronnikova
M. I. Gerasimova
E. Y. Sukhacheva
Y. V. Konoplyanikova
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description Results of 24 soil monoliths studying in the collection of Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum were analyzed in terms of diagnostic criteria in Russian soil classification system; these were chestnut, brown aridic, pale and cryoaridic soils. The topsoils of chestnut and brown aridic soils meet the criteria for the light-humus horizon (AJ), but their values in Munsell readings proved to be lower. In pale soils, the upper horizons were identified as gray-humus instead of light-humus ones as prescribed in the system. The cryohumus AK horizon, diagnostic for cryoaridic soils, is peculiar by the abundance of reddish frost-fragmented plant residues (detritus). We failed to differentiate metamorphic BM and xerometamorphic BMK horizon, they had more features of the latter. Both horizons are similar to the pale-metamorphic BPL horizon in color, although the BPL has a definitely weaker structure displaying some cryogenic features. These are less prominent in cryoaridic soils than in pale soils, hence, the diagnostic BPL horizon in cryoaridic soils may be removed to the category of diagnostic property. A similar re-evaluation may be proposed for the carbonate-textural CAT horizon: to consider it as a diagnostic property in the carbonate-accumulative horizon (ВСАt). The ВСА horizon in all soils studied differed by carbonate pedofeatures, namely, segregations in brown and chestnut soils, impregnations in pale soils, impregnations and coatings in cryoaridic soils.
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spelling doaj-art-0bb7f85a9e8944d983fc683238d6fb0d2025-08-20T03:59:12ZrusV.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science InstituteБюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева0136-16942312-42022019-09-01098375610.19047/0136-1694-2019-98-37-56326LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVELE. A. Gurkova0M. A. Bronnikova1M. I. Gerasimova2E. Y. Sukhacheva3Y. V. Konoplyanikova4Institute of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry SB RASInstitute of Geography, RASLomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography; V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science InstituteV.V. Dokuchaev Central Soil MuseumInstitute of Geography, RAS; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of GeographyResults of 24 soil monoliths studying in the collection of Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum were analyzed in terms of diagnostic criteria in Russian soil classification system; these were chestnut, brown aridic, pale and cryoaridic soils. The topsoils of chestnut and brown aridic soils meet the criteria for the light-humus horizon (AJ), but their values in Munsell readings proved to be lower. In pale soils, the upper horizons were identified as gray-humus instead of light-humus ones as prescribed in the system. The cryohumus AK horizon, diagnostic for cryoaridic soils, is peculiar by the abundance of reddish frost-fragmented plant residues (detritus). We failed to differentiate metamorphic BM and xerometamorphic BMK horizon, they had more features of the latter. Both horizons are similar to the pale-metamorphic BPL horizon in color, although the BPL has a definitely weaker structure displaying some cryogenic features. These are less prominent in cryoaridic soils than in pale soils, hence, the diagnostic BPL horizon in cryoaridic soils may be removed to the category of diagnostic property. A similar re-evaluation may be proposed for the carbonate-textural CAT horizon: to consider it as a diagnostic property in the carbonate-accumulative horizon (ВСАt). The ВСА horizon in all soils studied differed by carbonate pedofeatures, namely, segregations in brown and chestnut soils, impregnations in pale soils, impregnations and coatings in cryoaridic soils.https://bulletin.esoil.ru/jour/article/view/327cryoaridic and pale soilsbrown aridic and chestnut soilssoil classificationdiagnostic horizonsmuseum monoliths
spellingShingle E. A. Gurkova
M. A. Bronnikova
M. I. Gerasimova
E. Y. Sukhacheva
Y. V. Konoplyanikova
LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
Бюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева
cryoaridic and pale soils
brown aridic and chestnut soils
soil classification
diagnostic horizons
museum monoliths
title LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
title_full LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
title_fullStr LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
title_full_unstemmed LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
title_short LIGHT-HUMUS CARBONATE-ACCUMULATIVE AND PALE-METAMORPHIC SOILS IN THE COLLECTION OF V. V. DOKUCHAEV CENTRAL SOIL MUSEUM: VERIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AT TYPE LEVEL
title_sort light humus carbonate accumulative and pale metamorphic soils in the collection of v v dokuchaev central soil museum verification of diagnostics at type level
topic cryoaridic and pale soils
brown aridic and chestnut soils
soil classification
diagnostic horizons
museum monoliths
url https://bulletin.esoil.ru/jour/article/view/327
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