The Late Pleistocene Cryolithopaedogenesis and Grounds of the Central East European Plain

摘要

Gray forest and black soils of the Central East European Plain were studied. Patterned-fractured systems of various generations and shapes were formed in soil-forming grounds in the Later-Pleistocene age. They occurred at the modern day surface in the form of microrelief influencing the structure of modern and buried soil profiles. The soil formation in the Holocene age imposed on these strata and inherited and (or) transformed some of the relict indicators of periglacial soil formation and cryolithopaedogenesis. Multiple and various relict cryogenic phenomena differentiate the Holocene soil cover.