Morphogenesis of rice meadow-boggy soils in Kuban River region

Abstract

The morphological properties of the rice meadow-boggy soils in the Kuban region have been characterized. The basic elementary processes of soil-formation, such as gleization, hardsetting, and decarbonizing, have been revealed. It is indicated that the buried relic horizons of soils formed under the soil-formation conditions differed from those in the modern environments and they are found at the depth of 93 cm. The thickness of the top buried layer is 2–3 times greater than that of the arable horizons. The buried horizons are deeply compacted and little affected by the processes of leaching and gleization.