Cryogenic-Lateral Hypothesis of the Formation of the Parent Rock of Soddy-Podzolic Soils Using the Example of the Ryshkovo Paleosol (MIS 5e) in the Taneyev Quarry, Kursk Region

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The Ryshkovo paleosol of the Mikulino Interglacial (MIS 5e), Late Moscow loess (MIS 6), and buried small erosional landforms were studied in the Taneyev Quarry of Kursk oblast, in the center of the East European Plain. Macro- and micromorphological and palynological analyses of the soil samples were carried out, and the OSL age and physicochemical properties were determined. The history of erosional landforms, soils, and landscapes was reconstructed on the basis of the facial analysis of the paleosol catena. It was concluded that the differentiation of the paleosol profile into the Ah–E–Bt horizons was developed during the Mikulino Interglacial, whereas the initial heterogeneity of the parent material had been formed earlier, during the Late Moscow (Saalian) Glaciation, under the impact of slope and cryogenic processes. The lithological matrix of the Ryshkovo paleosol did not remain unchanged due to the different history of interaction of eolian and slope (solifluction and colluvial) processes, initial pedogenesis, and interglacial soil formation.