Agrochemical and microbiological properties of technogenic soils on dumps in the Kansk-Rybinsk Depression

The agrochemical properties and microbiological activity of the soils on dump rocks of different ages and degrees of cultivation in the area of the Borodinsk coal strip mine were studied. The technogenic soils of the dumps significantly differed from the native soils in their total nitrogen content....

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Published in:Eurasian soil science 2010-07, Vol.43 (7), p.810-821
Main Authors: Grodnitskaya, I. D., Trefilova, O. V., Shishikin, A. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural chemicals
Agricultural chemicals industry
Agrochemicals
Agronomy
Analysis
Chemicals
Coal industry
Conservation of Soils
Decomposing organic matter
Degradation
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Humus
Microbiology
Nitrogen
Reclamation
Rehabilitation
Soil microbiology
Soils
Strip mining
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Summary:The agrochemical properties and microbiological activity of the soils on dump rocks of different ages and degrees of cultivation in the area of the Borodinsk coal strip mine were studied. The technogenic soils of the dumps significantly differed from the native soils in their total nitrogen content. In the young soils (less than 5 years old), the total nitrogen was present in trace amounts; in the 20-year-old dumps, its content was lower than in the control soils by 2.5 times. It was found that a humus horizon 2–3 cm thick was formed on the surface of the dumps after 20 years regardless of the reclamation practice and that the intensity of the biological processes was comparable to that in the control soils, because the microbial complexes functioned under conditions typical for automorphic soils. It was shown that the ecophysiological status of the 3- to 10-year-old soils was unstable and their microbocenoses were at the development stage.
ISSN:1064-2293
1556-195X
DOI:10.1134/S1064229310070124