Soil cover of areas of mining sand and sand-gravel material in the Leningrad region

The article considers the component composition of soil cover in areas mining sand and sand-gravel material Leningrad region. sites under study are anthropogenically transformed that have a direct indirect impact on natural cover. Direct should include burial soils dumps, complete removal profile as result quarrying changes relief. process rock can lead to change parent rock. Indirect influences stratification surface by dust, over-consolidation, formation recreational zones, dumps bonfires. At all studied sites, same type organization was detected. Nonsoils formations were found where had been completely destroyed. These at places including access roads, outcrops pits filled with water. Slopes, roadsides cavaliers network protective ditches typically feature turbocharged stratified soils. Ditch bottoms formed Nudiargic Luvisols Nudialbic Podzols. Soil combinations slightly altered fully identified adjacent quarries.