Influence of soil drying on the formation of structural elements in gray forest soils

Peculiar features for the formation of structural elements (clasters) and regularities in their growth have been identified by precipitating the clay fractions extracted from samples of gray forest soils in water suspensions with the view of determining the mechanism responsible for the formation of the soil microstructure under the influence of temporary wetting-drying processes. Under use were suspensions of soil samples (