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A large amount of soil works on the steppe zone of the Trans-Ural Plateau has been analyzed for the purpose of finding benchmark soils to compile the Red Book of Soils. In light of the theory of basic, local, rare, and complex benchmark soils (Kliment’ev et al., 1996), the upland site on virgin soil in the center of the Stepnoe site of the Il’men State Reserve in the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS), should be referred to the basic benchmark soils as the most valuable soil object in the area. The upland site is a representative example of the steppe zone of the Trans-Ural Plateau. Brown earth soils and paleourbanozems soils marked by anthropogenic impact should be considered rare soils in the region. Other rare soils include natural fossil soils—the vertical chronological series of buried soils of terraces above the flood plain and soils buried under mounds and under the ramparts of the ancient settlement of Arkaim. The entire Stepnoe site, where different soils of the region are found, is considered a complex benchmark soil site.
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Original Russian Text © L.N. Plekhanova, 2017, published in Aridnye Ekosistemy, 2017, Vol. 23, No. 3(72), pp. 55–63.
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Plekhanova, L.N. Searching for benchmark soils in the steppe zone of the Trans-Ural Plateau to compile the Red Book of Soils. Arid Ecosyst 7, 171–177 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096117030076
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