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Peat soils: Genesis and classification

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This paper considers three topical problems—the definition of peat soils as natural-historical formations and the estimation of their profile thickness, the analysis of the genesis of organic soils, and the principles of the classification of peat soils. Based on the experimental data of long-term studies, it was concluded that peat soils may include the whole peat layer and the upper horizons of the surface mineral soil. The organic and mineral parts of the natural structures were found to be a genetically homogeneous soil profile, which has the same history of development. The upper layer of the peat soils should be considered as the horizon reflecting the contemporary stage of the soil formation. A hierarchy of peat soils is analyzed for developing their classification.

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  1. Siberian Research Institute of Peat, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ul. Gagarina 3, Tomsk, 634050 Russia

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Original Russian Text © L.I. Inisheva, 2006, published in Pochvovedenie, 2006, No. 7, pp. 781–786.

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Inisheva, L.I. Peat soils: Genesis and classification. Eurasian Soil Sc. 39, 699–704 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229306070027

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