The diversity of the morphometric profiles of the pore space in soddy-podzolic and gray forest soils of East European plain

Among the quantitative indices of the pore space, the morphometric data are characterized by the largest genetic specificity. The values of size, form and pore orientation, which form the morphometric profiles, reflect the vertical variability of the morphological composition of the soil pores. The computer analysis of the pore space in the thin sections of the soil from the main genetic layers showed lateral variability, and also the similarity and difference of morphometric profiles of the pore space in the soddy-podzolic and gray forest soils of European Russia within the range 0.2 mm