From: Microbial features of mature and abandoned soils in refractory clay deposits
Name | Soil type | Local description | Plants | Horizons | Inclusions | Coordinates |
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Refractory clay mining dumps (pre-quaternary sediments) | ||||||
pQ_1 (Overburden Soil) | Loamy gray-humus on moraine dump overburden | Overgrown (about 20 years) heaps of quaternary overburden | Reed grass, clover, willow, peas, herd grass, yarrow (100% projective cover) | AY (0 – 7)*, C(7–18) Loosely riddled with roots | Loosely riddled with roots | 58.366140, 33.877831 |
pQ_2 (Stone Heaps) | Â | Lithostrat (heaped mineral ground), mix with large unrolled rocky debris | Absent | Dump overburden without features of pedogenesis formation | Roots, coal, oxidized pyrite | 58.366330, 33.879089 |
pQ_3 (Spoil Heaps) | Â | Waste heap (about 70Â years old) at the coal mines | Absent, presumably due to extremely low pH | Dump overburden without signs of soil formation | Coal, pyrite | 58.364520, 33.886705 |
pQ_R (Bulk Soil) | Sod-podzolic (Albeluvisol) developed on moraine heavy textured loams | Red-brown moraine outcrop, zonal south taiga meadow ecosystem | Scotch pine forest | AY (0 – 4)*, EI (4 – 10), BI (10 – 30) |  | 58.365306, 33.888421 |
Sandy quarry (quaternary deposits) | ||||||
Q_1 (Sand Dumps) |  | Entisoil (embryonic soil) on sands (30 years), sand pit dumps | Young pine stand | AY (0 – 1)*, C (1 – 20) | a lot of litter | 58.397174, 33.395037 |
Q_R (Bulk Soil) |  | Background podzol on glacial sands (over the road from the quarry) | Pine forest, spruce undergrowth, fern, oxalis | O (0 – 4)*, AY (4 – 7), E (7 – 10), C (10 – 20) |  | 58.399094, 33.397613 |