Genesis and Soil Formation in Podzols and Brown Mountain Forest Soils in Eurasia

G. Antonov

Abstract: Brown Mountain Forest Soils are degraded Mountain Meadow Soils as a result of established bush and forest vegetation after glacial. Podzols were formed under influence of acid products forest litter (bedspread) over the mineral layer, supported or not by reduction-oxidation processes. The study aims to establish the difference in the genesis of Brown Mountain Forest Soils and Podzols, which is controversial due to the involvement of the gleying in the podzol forming as transient even as a form of manifestation.

Keywords: Brown Mountain Forest Soils; genesis; Podzols; soil formation

Date published: 2017-02-13