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EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 591-599Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S1064229309060027
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The results of comprehensive investigations into the soil-forming conditions, morphology, substantive composition, physicochemical properties, bulk elemental composition, and mineralogy of mountainous meadow-steppe soils of the Eastern Caucasus region are discussed. The analysis of the obtained and published data has shown that the formation of these soils takes place in a relatively arid high-mountain environment from the coarse-textured eluvium of noncalcareous rocks. Two major pedogenetic processes with the participation of soil biota-humus accumulation and argillization-are responsible for their origin. Suggestions for improving the classification of mountainous meadow-steppe soils are given.
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