CONTEMPORARY STATE AND THE ATTEMPT AT THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOIL COVER IN THE HIGHLY DIVERSIFIED LOESS AREA ON THE BASIS OF THE SANDOMIERZ UPLAND IN OSTROWIEC SWIETOKRZYSKI AND CMIELOW SURROUNDINGS

摘要

This study is an attempt at reconstructing the soil cover of the northern slope of the Opatow loess patch based on the morphology analysis of 23 investigated soil profiles and their chemical properties. It was stated that at present the investigated area is mainly occupied by secondary, typical brown soils, acid and leached, on slopes weakly developed, strongly eroded. The Holocene model profiles of grey-brown podzolic soils occur only in forest areas, e.g. in the Las Gorny forest. The bottom of theloess valleys is mainly occupied by deluvial-aluvial soils, as an effect of long lasting human activity started in neolith.