TY - JOUR

T1 - Pedochronosequences of Medieval Burial Mounds, Pskov Oblast

AU - Жарких, Игорь Александрович

AU - Русаков, Алексей Валентинович

AU - Михайлова, Елена Робертовна

AU - Соболев, Владислав Юрьевич

AU - Khokhlova, O. S.

AU - Makeev, Alexander

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - The soils buried under the early medieval mounds of the 9th and early 11th centuries AD were studied. The reconstruction of environmental trendу and their influence on soils was carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the properties of soils buried under mounds of different ages, surface soils, and newly formed soil on mound structures supplemented with data on the time of soil formation on sandy parent rocks in the taiga zone. The study area belongs to the Baltic province of soddy-podzolic soils of the southern taiga subzone. Soils buried under mound structures characterize periods with different climatic conditions. Soils that developed before burial in the cool and humid climate of the 8th–9th centuries AD are specified by the mobility of iron compounds in the profile and a morphologically pronounced accumulation of bleached quartz grains in its upper part. The influence of relatively warm and dry climate of the 10th century AD on the processes of soil formation is manifested in the lower mobility of iron compounds, more active humus accumulation, and less pronounced bleaching of mineral grains

AB - The soils buried under the early medieval mounds of the 9th and early 11th centuries AD were studied. The reconstruction of environmental trendу and their influence on soils was carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the properties of soils buried under mounds of different ages, surface soils, and newly formed soil on mound structures supplemented with data on the time of soil formation on sandy parent rocks in the taiga zone. The study area belongs to the Baltic province of soddy-podzolic soils of the southern taiga subzone. Soils buried under mound structures characterize periods with different climatic conditions. Soils that developed before burial in the cool and humid climate of the 8th–9th centuries AD are specified by the mobility of iron compounds in the profile and a morphologically pronounced accumulation of bleached quartz grains in its upper part. The influence of relatively warm and dry climate of the 10th century AD on the processes of soil formation is manifested in the lower mobility of iron compounds, more active humus accumulation, and less pronounced bleaching of mineral grains

KW - archaeological soil science

KW - buried soils

KW - environmental dynamics

KW - mesomorphology

KW - northwest of the Russian Plain

KW - soddy podburs

KW - soil chronosequence

UR - https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=67306782

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/936a8f52-424a-332d-844d-e757be6a195d/

U2 - 10.1134/s1064229323602652

DO - 10.1134/s1064229323602652

M3 - Article

VL - 57

SP - 166

EP - 175

JO - Eurasian Soil Science

JF - Eurasian Soil Science

SN - 1064-2293

IS - 1

ER -