RESEARCH REGARDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE RESORT AND THE RENDZIC SOILS IN TRASCAU MOUNTAINS

  • Marinela Barbura University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca
  • I. Pacurar University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca
  • Anca Leonora Sotropa University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca

Abstract

The Trascau Mountains are an extension to the north-east of the Metaliferi Mountains. They have a very complex petrographical structure, represented by basalts, crystalline schists, sandstones, limestones, crystalline limestones, gneisses, dacites etc. All these have determined the formation of a very diverse relief (ridges, volcanic hills, abrupts, ravines, caves) and thus a very diverse soil covering. Four rendzic soil profiles were assessed and analyzed, found in the forest area of Trascau Mountains. Because of the extremely diverse microrelief conditions in the territory, most of the soils are skeletal, with low and medium edafic volume, some even superficial. The forest resorts in this area have at best a medium production capacity, because of the relief conditions and the skeletal soils.
Published
2012-07-23
Section
Research articles