An experience of the micromorphological diagnostics of urban soils

The micromorphological study of urban soils in the southern taiga revealed that their formation is controlled by a group of processes atypical for sod dy-podzolic soils. In particular, urban soils are characterized by a consid erable accumulation of detritus and raw humus, as well as by the developmen t of gleyzation in the presence of carbonates and the formation of ferrugin ous concretions and vivianite. Soil sealing accelerates gleyzation and affe cts the distribution of carbonates.