Research Article

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 horizonsDepth of solum
AbEBt1Bt2BCAb-BC
MeanCVMeanCVMeanCVMeanCVMeanCVMeanCV
(m)(%)(m)(%)(m)(%)(m)(%)(m)(%)()(%)

Top ()0.1122.20.097.70.2613.70.2934.50.3020.01.04a8.7
Flat area ()0.1043.60.1933.70.5627.90.4317.20.3621.11.64b6.2
Slope-aspect S ()0.0927.50.1143.20.4228.80.3425.00.3516.51.31a10.3
Slope-aspect N ()0.1216.70.1459.90.4818.80.4129.20.3816.31.52b8.8
Floor ()0.1643.80.1833.00.5126.80.8034.00.406.22.05c15.7

Mean values of solum followed by different letters are significantly different at .