Value concepts of «landscape» and «geosystem» in geographical space and time

The concepts of landscape and geosystem widely used inphysical geography require a certain understanding and use. We should agree with A.G. Isachenko that landscape is the object of studyof landscape study and geosystem - of physical-geographical zoning. Isolation of landscape units at various levels in landscape is toclassify natural systems on the similarity of symptoms, mainly zonal. Landscape is an integral characteristic of a natural complex inspace with respect to all physical and geographic components, causing its current status. Units of physical-geographical zoning,geosystems, are allocated taking into account all the geographical components, including the tectonic structure and macrorelief, i.e.zonal and azonal factors, such as localisation of physical-geographical countries. Geosystems are differential characteristics of naturalsystems in space; they emphasize the differences, originality, uniqueness, specificity and uniqueness of natural systems. The verticalstructure of landscape and geosystem reflect differences of concepts over time. Landscape profile characterizes the contemporaryinteraction of geographic components; in the depth it captures the soil and parent rocks within the supergene zone. Landscape is adifferential unit of geographic time that characterizes the current state of the natural complex or condition of the natural complex in thespecific and short period of time, the interaction of modern geographic components in a particular area. Physico-geographical profile,more powerful vertically than landscape, corresponds not only the contemporary interaction of natural systems, but also reflects thehistory of the formation of the territory, imprinted in its tectonic structure. Geosystem traces the historical development of the naturalcomplex, changes of geographic components in time and acts as an integral concept of geographic time. Landscape cover is the centralpart of the geographic cover, which shows zoning; it is based on current interaction between the geographical components. Thegeographic cover is the crust of the Earth, created by the interaction of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere; it wasformed during the Earth's history and describes the evolution of landscapes. Taking into account not only the modern interaction in thegeosphere, but also the historical, the lower boundary of the geographic stratum in the earth's crust can not be confined only to the soilcover and weathering crust. It should include all the Earth's crust, which is the product of the geosphere in the Earth's history, and eventhe upper layers of the lithosphere, as they account for the differences in the continental and oceanic crust.

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