Magnetic method applying for the control of productive land degradation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24028/gzh.0203-3100.v38i4.2016.107810Keywords:
magnetic susceptibility, soil, humus, erosion, land degradation, agricultureAbstract
The development of agriculture in Ukraine requires increasing of the crop yields, which can lead to soil and humus loss, soil erosion and land degradation. The task of soil mapping and modeling within the farm lands is important to predict and control hazard processes in soil. The expected result is the elaboration of the optimal schemes of land exploitation and sustainable use management. To solve these tasks we propose to involve magnetic methods of the soil studies. They give us highly informative techniques based on our own and international experience. The first case of our investigation is magnetic susceptibility of agricultural land within Kharkiv region. The soil is presented by chernozems. We registered the average value of the soil mass-specific magnetic susceptibility (χ): 69×10–8 m3/kg; minimum value is 50×10–8 m3/kg; maximum value is 86×10–8 m3/kg. The coefficient of variation is 12.48 %, which indicates the low variability of magnetic susceptibility within the area. This indicate the absence of the soil type change and technogenic impact. The second example was conducted within the Odessa region. The landscape represents the plain with the bluff near the sea lanes. Lateral cross-section was investigated to identify the parts with the high level of soil erosion dangerous. The magnetic susceptibility of highly magnetic not disturbed southern chernozems reached 160×10–8 m3/kg. We identified the points of the replacement of top soil. This eroded soil, which was presented by underlying clay horizon, has the magnetic susceptibility about 80×10–8 m3/kg. Humus content in soil is closely connected with the formation of magnetic minerals in the soil under the pedogenic process. We mean in this case the absence of the anthropogenic and technogenic impact. The formation of magnetic minerals is controlled only by the presence of organic matter in soil aggregates and favorable conditions for the iron valence change. The productive Ukraine top soil contains fine-grained oxidized magnetite and maghemite of pedogenic origin formed by weathering of the parent material. This soil is often presented by chernozems from the farm lands with the high level of erosion risk. The formation of the magnetite is related to the magnetotactic bacteria functions.
References
Armstrong A., Quinton J. N., Maher B. A., 2012.Thermal enhancement of natural magnetism as a tool for tracing eroded soil. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37(14), 1567—1572.
Chen L. M., Zhang G. L., Rossiter D. G., Cao Z. H., 2015. Magnetic depletion and enhancement in the evolution of paddy and non-paddy soil chronosequences. Eur. J. Soil Sci. 66(5), 886—897.
García-Orenes F., Cerdà A., Mataix-Solera J., Guerrero C., Bodí M. B., Arcenegui V., Zornoza R., Sempere J. G., 2009. Effects of agricultural management on surface soil properties and soil-water losses in eastern Spain. Soil Tillage Res. 106, 117—123.
Gennadiev A. N., Zhidkin A. P., Olson K. R., Kachinskii V. L., 2010. Soil erosion under different land uses: assessment by the magnetic tracer method. Eur. Soil Sci. 43(9), 1047—1054.
Giménez-Morera A., Ruiz Sinoga J. D., Cerdà A., 2010. The impact of cotton geotextiles on soil and water losses from Mediterranean rainfed agricultural land. Land Degradation and Development 21(2), 210—217.
Hanesch M., Scholger R., 2005. The influence of soil type on the magnetic susceptibility measured throughout soil profiles. Geophys. J. Int. 161, 50—56.
Jeleńska M., Hasso-Agopsowicz A., Kopcewicz B., Sukhorada A., Tyamina K., Kądziałko-Hofmokl M., Matviishina Z., 2004. Magnetic properties of the profiles of polluted and non-polluted soils. A case study from Ukraine. Geophys. J. Int. 159, 104—116.
Jeleńska M., Hasso-Agopsowicz A., Kądziałko-Hofmokl M., Sukhorada A., Bondar K., 2008. Magnetic iron oxides occurring in chernozem soil from Ukraine and Poland as indicators of pedogenic processes. Stud. Geophys. Geod. 52, 255—270.
Jordanova D., Jordanova N., Atanasova A., Tsacheva T., Petrov P., 2011. Soil tillage erosion by using magnetism of soils — a case study from Bulgaria. Environ. Monit. Assess. 183, 381—394.
Jordanova D., Jordanova N., Werban U., 2013. Environmental significance of magnetic properties of Gley soils near Rosslau (Germany). Environ. Earth Sci. 69, 1719—1732.
Kapička A., Dlouha S., Grison H., Jaksik O., Petrovsky E., Kodesova R., 2013. Magnetic properties of soils — A basis for erosion study at agricultural land in Southern Moravia. 13th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management. P. 577—584.
Lovley D. R., Philips E. J. P., 1986. Organic matter mineralization with reduction of ferric iron in anaerobic sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51, 683—689.
Mandal D., Sharda V. N., 2013. Appraisal of soil erosion risk in the Eastern Himalayan region of India for soil conservation planning. Land Degrad. Develop. 24, 430—437.
Mullins C. E., 1977. Magnetic susceptibility of the soil and its significance in soil science — a review. J. Soil Sci. 28, 223—246.
Sutherland R. A., 1989. Quantification of accelerated soil erosion using the environmental tracer caesium-137. Land Degrad. Develop. 1(is. 3), 199—208.
Taylor R. M., Maher B. A., Self P. G., 1987. Magnetite in soils: The synthesis of single-domain and superparamagnetic magnetite. Clay Miner. 22, 411—422.
Yang H., Xiong H., Chen X., Wang Y., Zhang F., 2015. Identifying the influence of urbanization on soil organic matter content and pH from soil magnetic characteristics. J. Arid Land. 7(6), 820—830.
Yang P. G., Yang M., Mao R. Z., Byrne J. M., 2015. Impact of Long-Term Irrigation with Treated Sewage on Soil Magnetic Susceptibility and Organic Matter Content in North China. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 95(1), 102—107.
Ziadat F. M., Taimeh A. Y., 2013. Effect of rainfall intensity, slope and land use and antecedent soil moisture on soil erosion in an arid environment. Land Degrad. Develop. 24, 582—590.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
