Paleocryogenic peculiarities of the morphogenesis of chernozems in the Kamennaya Steppe

It is shown that the profiles of modern chernozems contain relic paleocryog enic features that formed in the Late Pleistocene period. The impact or pal eocryogenic processes on soil development is manifested by various types of cryogenic microtopography, ground wedges, and a tonguing lower boundary of the humus horizon, as well as by significant differences in the thickness of humus horizons. contents of soil carbonates, and bulk densities between the soils of elevated paleocryogenic polygons (blocks) and interblock depre ssions. Paleocryogenic peculiarities of the structure of surface deposits a nd soils exert considerable influence on the character and intensity of mod ern erosional processes.