AN ASSESSMENT OF LOAD ON THE ARABLE SLOPES ON THE BASIS OF FIELD METHODS AND MATHEMATIC MODELS
https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2015-2-41-53
Abstract
An assessment of the sediment spatial redistribution on two facing slopes of the site Gracheva hollow (Kursk region) was fulfilled. Soil-morphologic method, magnetic tracers, radiocesium dating, LISEM, and physical-statistical empirical model were used.
By the complex of field methods related to different time intervals (150, 140, and 21 y.) regularities associated mainly with the influence of slope morphology on the sediment runoff and redeposition were obtained. On the dispersing convex slope all field methods showed wave-like alternation of the accumulation and wash-out, which manifests in and is augmented by the microrelief elements. According to the three field methods the value of the intra-slope accumulation ranges from 11% to 79% of the total dislodged material value; the mean value reaches 35% (with the use the erosion models calculations). On the straight convex slopes zones of alternation were not observed; accumulation close to slope bottom, revealed by soil-morphologic method and magnetic tracers, is connected with the changes of the low boundary of ploughing during agricultural exploitation.
The calculated rates of sediment redeposition obtained with the erosion model LISEM helped to evaluate with sufficient validity the total wash out from the slope and to determine zones of sediment redestribution along the strike of the slope. The physical-statistical model also describes well the peculiarities of this process but gives less values of intra-slope accumulation than LISEM.
About the Authors
A. P. ZhidkinRussian Federation
Geographical Department
V. N. Golosov
Russian Federation
Geographical Department
A. A. Svetlichny
Ukraine
A. V. Pyatkova
Ukraine
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Zhidkin A.P., Golosov V.N., Svetlichny A.A., Pyatkova A.V. AN ASSESSMENT OF LOAD ON THE ARABLE SLOPES ON THE BASIS OF FIELD METHODS AND MATHEMATIC MODELS. Geomorfologiya. 2015;(2):41-53. https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2015-2-41-53
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