The Effect of Land Use Change on Transformation of Relief and Modification of Soils in Undulating Loess Area of East Poland
Table 5
Depth of soil horizons in noneroded (apart from Ap horizon) and buried soils, depth of soil solum, and results of ANOVA; means were separated by Tukey’s HSD test.
Soil position and number of profiles
Depth of horizons
Depth of solum
Ab
E
Bt1
Bt2
BC
Ab-BC
Mean
CV
Mean
CV
Mean
CV
Mean
CV
Mean
CV
Mean
CV
(m)
(%)
(m)
(%)
(m)
(%)
(m)
(%)
(m)
(%)
()
(%)
Top ()
0.11
22.2
0.09
7.7
0.26
13.7
0.29
34.5
0.30
20.0
1.04a
8.7
Flat area ()
0.10
43.6
0.19
33.7
0.56
27.9
0.43
17.2
0.36
21.1
1.64b
6.2
Slope-aspect S ()
0.09
27.5
0.11
43.2
0.42
28.8
0.34
25.0
0.35
16.5
1.31a
10.3
Slope-aspect N ()
0.12
16.7
0.14
59.9
0.48
18.8
0.41
29.2
0.38
16.3
1.52b
8.8
Floor ()
0.16
43.8
0.18
33.0
0.51
26.8
0.80
34.0
0.40
6.2
2.05c
15.7
Mean values of solum followed by different letters are significantly different at .