LANDSCAPE-GEOCHEMICAL AND SOIL-GEOGRAPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
I.A. BELOZERTSEVA, N.V. VLASOVA
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia belozia@irigs.irk.ru
Keywords: ландшафт, геохимия, почва, картографирование, Сибирь, Байкал, landscape, geochemistry, soil, mapping, Siberia, Baikal
Abstract
We examine the main development paths of academic landscape-geochemical and soil-geographical research reflected in contributions published in the journal «Geografiya i Prirodnye Resursy». Emphasis is placed on the areas of landscape-geochem ical and soil-geographical research on a comprehensive study into the structure of geosystems of the main types of geographical environment and their natural regimes in expedition-based and station-based investigations. An attempt is made to generalize the areas of research and determine the vector of its changes. The development prospects of the landscape-geochemical direction of modern geography imply a better understanding of the patterns of an integral physical-geographical process and the solution of practical problems having largely an ecological-assessment and forecasting character.
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