DEVELOPMENT OF SOIL-GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES AT THE ODESA UNIVERSITY (1933-2015 YEARS)
Journal Title: Вісник Одеського національного університету. Географічні та геологічні науки - Year 2015, Vol 20, Issue 2
Abstract
The purpose of research is an analysis of existing literature and archival sources on the development of soil-geographic researches in Odessa University during the 1933-2015 years. Methodology. The source base of research was used as literature and archival materials, as well as individual achievements of modern scientists for studying the history of soil science (S. S. Brakin, J. O. Ambrose, Y. M. Bilanchin, S. P. Pozniak, E. N. Krasekha, V. I. Trigub, N. A. Popelnytska). These materials allow to conduct a thorough analysis of the development of soil-geographical researches in Odessa University in general and on the Department of Soil Science and Soil Geography in particular, identify and characterize current research areas of the Department. Finding and Results. Soil-geographical researches on all stages at the Odesa University were deep and diverse. Through the activities of scientists led by S. Brakin during the 1933-1967 years, soils of Odesa and Mykolaiv regions were examined. As a result of these researches were revised borders of the spreading of chernozems, their physical and chemical characteristics, created the first soil-erosion maps. Initiated by I. Plyusnin in 1947 was first established an independent Department of Soil Science and conducted studies in which special attention was paid to the study of genetic types of geological deposits, genesis erosion of valleys, floodplain soils and their development within the Black Sea Lowland. A significant contribution to the formation and development of national soil science and researches of southwestern areas did Ivan Gogolev who initiated and facilitated within Geology and Geography Faculty to create Department of Soil Science and Soil Geography in 1967. Developing ideas of I. Gogolev modern scientific researches of the department divided into several priority areas: morphological and genetic, soil reclamation, landscape-geochemical, cartographical, soil-ecological, historical and others. The results of soil-geographical studies of specified period have important theoretical and practical significance for modern science, greatly enriched the soil science with new facts and materials for the knowledge of origin, distribution, classification of soils, patterns of evolution in natural and anthropogenically-modified conditions.
Authors and Affiliations
Nataliia Popelnytska, Valentina I. Trigub
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP400226
- DOI -
- Views 83
- Downloads 0
PELOIDS OF THE DEEP BLACK SEA – MATERIAL COMPOSITION, PROPERTIES AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES
The main purpose of this study is to prove that certain types of genetic materials of the deepwater Black Sea sediments correspond to the notion of “deepwater peloids”, and that their stocks in the upper layers of the bo...
NATURAL FACTORS OF THE «GLOBAL DIMMING» OF THE EARTH ATMOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERIC UPPER CLOUDINESS
It is found that the number of significant nature factors of the “global dimming” include two types of nature processes. The first type processes are the changes of the total ozone content distribution and the alteration...
WATER SALINITY IN TILIGUL LIMAN DURING THE SEASONS OF YEAR (NORTHERN COAST OF THE BLACK SEA)
Purpose. Northern coast of the Black Sea is classic limanic type in Geography Sciences. All of coastal limans contain important natural resources, for instance, medicine mud and condition of recreation. In the limans fis...
FEATURES OF SEA LEVEL OSCILLATIONS IN INLAND BASINS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
Problem Statement and Purpose. The determination of the impact of planetary regularities not only to the entire dynamic system of the World Ocean but also on its separate regions stimulates the development of mechanisms...
INFLUENCE OF WIND REGIME ON HYDROLOGIC AL CHARACTERISTICS OF ODESSA BAY WATERS IN 2016-2017
Problem Statement and Purpose. Odessa Bay of the Black Sea is an important region for hydrological monitoring because it is an interaction area of the Dnieper, Southern Bug and Dniester rivers discharge with the wind cur...