The development of chernozems on the Dniester-Prut interfluve in the Holocene

Abstract

The development of foreststeppe and steppe ch ernozems on the Dniester-Prut interfluve in the Holocene was studied on the basis of data on the paleosols buried under archaeological monuments of differ� ent ages. The parameters of the mathematic models of the development of the soil humus horizons in differ� ent subtypes of chernozems were calculated. They were used to determine the rate of this process and the age of the soils formed on the surface of Trajan's lower rampart. The climatecontrolled changes in the character of the soil's development in the Late Holocene were differently pronounced in the different subtypes of cher� nozems. The suggested differentiation of the trends in the development of the humus horizon in the studied chernozems corresponds to the differences in the soilforming potential of particular areas (as judged from the energy consumption for pedogenesis).