Soils of the Southwestern Part of the Pacific Coast of Russia
- Authors: Kostenkov N.M.1, Zharikova E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Federal Research Center for Biodiversity
- Issue: Vol 51, No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 140-152
- Section: Genesis and Geography of Soils
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1064-2293/article/view/224397
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229318020059
- ID: 224397
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Abstract
The diversity of soils in the southwestern part of the Pacific coast of Russia (Primorie region) is discussed. Overall, 17 soil types belonging to 8 soil orders have been described in this region, and their morphology and properties have been studied. The diversity of plant communities, geomorphic conditions, and parent materials and relatively mild (as compared with other parts of the Far East region of Russia) specify the great variability of soil cover patterns. Low sea terraces are occupied by various peat, organo-accumulative, and gley soils; poorly drained medium-high terraces are the areas of various dark-humus and darkhumus gleyed soils. Typical and gleyic dark-humus podbels, dark-humus, and dark-humus gleyed soils formed on the high sea terraces. Residual elevations are occupied by brown forest (burozemic) soils, including typical burozems, dark-humus burozems, and gleyic dark-humus burozems and by dark-humus podbels. Various alluvial, gleyic gray-humus, and mucky gley soils are developed on riverine plains. On general, darkhumus soils with the high (>10%) humus content predominate; the area of dark-humus podbels us estimated at about 20%, and the area of dark-humus burozems is about 12%. All the soils in this region are specified by increased acidity values. The exchangeable sodium content is often high in the upper soil horizons with maximum values (0.71–1.19 cmol(c)/kg) in the peat gleyzems, peaty dark-humus soils, mucky-gley soils, and eutrophic peat soils of sea terraces. The grouping of the soils with respect to their physicochemical and agrochemical properties is suggested.
About the authors
N. M. Kostenkov
Federal Research Center for Biodiversity
Email: jarikova@ibss.dvo.ru
Russian Federation, prosp. 100-letiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok, 690022
E. A. Zharikova
Federal Research Center for Biodiversity
Author for correspondence.
Email: jarikova@ibss.dvo.ru
Russian Federation, prosp. 100-letiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok, 690022
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