Regional Monitoring of Natural Environment 2004, No 5, 175-183
ULTRASTRUCTURE OF GRAINS SURFACE OF SAND OF BROWN LEACHED SOIL DEVELOPED FROM SAND OF THE TERMINAL MORAINE
Zygmunt Brogowski, Jolanta Raczuk
Summary
Diameter and shape of sand grains of investigated soil material do not changed during soil and soil froming processes. The grains of sand inheritated such character after geological processes transformed of massive rocks to loose one creating of sedimentary rock.
Soil and Soil forming processes printing their stigma on microfeature mainly on sand grains surface only,. Grains in smoler diameter do not show such stigma and feature as sand one.
Sand grains from surface soil horizons of investigated soil shows mainly chamical destruction such as corrode, disolving and others and some phisical such as craks, incisions, breaks and so for.
Sand grains of deeper horizons show olso some chemical and phisical destruction of their surface but mostly of them “build on” by recrystalization percipitation of news compounds even by transformation of silicium to quartz.
