Grouping the carriers of soil memory (the case of the northern area of chernovaya taiga)

The concept of soil memory is a new paradigmatic step in the development of geneticsoil science. It allows to analyze scientifically a great amount of accumulated and publishedfactual material on soil and to view it in terms of memory. The possibilities of newinformation approach to soil and notions related to it are under consideration. It wasconcluded that further development of the concept requires formation of a special discourse,and that can be achieved through the establishment of various classifications.There is a scheme of the cognitive process within the paradigm of soil science ofV.V. Dokuchaev. On its basis an attempt was made to determine a number of terms whichare used while grouping the carriers of soil memory according to spatial and temporalcharacteristics of recording processes forming them. The derived grouping is made up offour levels, divided into groups and subgroups. The division of levels is based on themost common criteria used in the processes of learning natural and historical objects.That is catastrophism / uniformism of the record (in the chosen time scale duration ofone process looks like a point or a segment). The correspondence of the process with factorconditions, or its residual nature. The recording process is localized in space or onthe timescale, continually or discretely. The level can be applied to almost any carrier ofsoil memory, and it, in its turn, is made up of groups and subgroups, which are based onparticular criteria, specifying characteristics of the carrier within the level. All units ofthe grouping of soil memory carriers are provided with examples from the northern extremityof taiga. While grouping, one should understand how the researcher views theobject being examined, and what significant features it will possess. For that you shouldcorrectly identify the hierarchical level and scale of the process effect in time. Aftergrouping every examined carrier is given a metric that can be represented by the namesof levels / groups / subgroups, or by some addresses (codes), which can be used whileforming soil databases. The grouping of soil memory carriers was based on soil samplestaken in the submountain taiga in the South-East of Western Siberia. Therefore, it is possiblethat basing on soils of the arid climate, you could probably get a different groupingstructure. The approaches stated can be used in the development of a metric for monitoringsoil objects of different hierarchical levels, because they allow to evaluate soil propertiesin terms of their ability to reflect changes.

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