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Abstract: Considerations About Parent Material and Soils Distribution in the Region of Fizeş Plain Transylvania Plain). Physical weathering is the mechanical break down of the rock materials into smaller particles. Together with chemical weathering, it plays a key role in the rock cycle by forming parent material, colluvium, sediment, and soils at the Earth’s surface. Spatial variability of soils has long been recognized as a crucial issue in a variety of practical contexts and is emerging as a key concern in the geosciences. Because soils reflects the interacting influences of geology, climate, hydrology, geomorphology processes, and the biosphere, the understanding and interpretation of soil patterns and variability is of concern in the use of relationship between parent material and soil, to reconstruct environmental change, and in comprehending contemporary earth surface systems. Even when variability is related to microtopography, which are incorporated in the factors of soil formation conceptual framework, it may occur at a spatial scale which is too fine for typical application of the soil-landscape model and soil chemical paradigm. This paper examines the role of parent material in soils distribution. The influence of parent material on various key soil properties is discussed here, including chemical features, texture, sodicity, salinity level, acidity, shrink/swell potential, erodibility and profile thickness. Soil cover of Fizeş Plain region is mainly due to the geological, topography, vegetation and climatic diversity. |
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