Ancient agricultural terraces in the Kislovodsk Depression: History and modern state of the soils
| العنوان: | Ancient agricultural terraces in the Kislovodsk Depression: History and modern state of the soils |
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| المؤلفون: | Dmitry S. Korobov, A. V. Bukhonov, A. V. Borisov, O. G. Zanina, V. V. Demidov, A. N. Simakova |
| المصدر: | Eurasian Soil Science. 45:561-577 |
| بيانات النشر: | Pleiades Publishing Ltd, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Depression (economics), Stage (stratigraphy), Terrace (agriculture), Iron Age, Soil water, Erosion, Soil Science, Physical geography, Precipitation, Geomorphology, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, Colluvium |
| الوصف: | The results of the investigation into the history of soilscapes in the Kislovodsk Depression are discussed. It is shown that up to 60–70% of the area of slopes and interfluvial plateaus at the heights of 900–1500 m a.s.l. was terraced in the Late Bronze-Early Iron ages, during the Kobansk cultural stage (1200–600 BC). Under these conditions, a sharp change in the climate with a considerable increase in the annual precipitation in the middle of the first millennium BC resulted in the activation of erosion and the formation of a layer of colluvial sediments overlying the buried soil on the terraces. Thus, the middle of the first millennium BC can be considered the zero moment for the modern stage of soil formation in the region. Problems of the current state of the terrace complexes and the development of erosion on them are also discussed. |
| تدمد: | 1556-195X 1064-2293 |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s1064229312060038 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::dad33c831f71638c4ec650e751829baf https://doi.org/10.1134/s1064229312060038 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........dad33c831f71638c4ec650e751829baf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1556195X 10642293 |
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| DOI: | 10.1134/s1064229312060038 |