Specificity and Genesis of the Soil Cover of Man-Made Landscapes
V. A. ANDROKHANOV
Abstract
The soil cover of man-made landscapes of the Kuznetsk basin is described. It is established that the basis of the soil cover of man-made landscapes is composed of four types of embryonic soils. The specificity of formation of the embryonic soils is determined by the peculiarities of development of biological processes. It is demonstrated that the rate of development of biogeocenoses is controlled by the environmental conditions which are formed during the technogenesis stage. Therein, considered as the ecologically most important element of technogenesis must be the rock formation, i.e. the man-caused lithogenesis.
