studia universitatis babeş – bolyai geographia 1

GEOMORPHOSYSTEMIC CONDITIONALITIES IN PEDOGENESIS
Fig. 4. Land-use in Pădurea Craiului Mountains according CLC (1.Continuous urban fabric,
2.Discontinuous urban fabric, 3.Industrial or commercial units, 4.Mineral extraction sites,
5.Dump sites, 6.Sport and leisure facilities, 7.Non-irrigated arable land, 8.Vineyards, 9.Fruit
trees and berry plantations, 10.Pastures, 11.Complex cultivation patterns, 12.Land principally
occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation, 13.Broad-leaved forest,
14.Coniferous forest, 15.Mixed forest, 16.Natural grasslands, 18.Transitional woodland-shrub,
19.Sparsely vegetated areas, 20.Inland marshes, 21.Water courses, 22.Water bodies).
4. PĂDUREA CRAIULUI MOUNTAINS SOILS – PRODUCT OF THE
GEOMORPHOSYSTEMIC INTERCONDITIONS
The soils represent not only a sum but a result of the synergic evolution of the
rocks in the substratum, of the superficial deposits, of water, of vegetation etc, under the
guiding influence of the climate, in general, and of the topoclimate, in particular.
The soils in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains represent a geographic synthesis of
the relations between the abiotic, biotic and even autotrophic components of the geographic
territorial system, they determining the installing of the geographic landscape as a superior
entity within the geospatial and temporal integration.
The landscape being installed, the soils still keep their "buffer" function between
the metamorphoses taking place in the epigeosystem with an important role in maintaining
a general dynamic equilibrium of the studied territory.
Although they are products of some past geographic states (especially from the
Quaternary, or more precise from the Holocene), they can constitute the base for the
"projection" of new states and structures. The natural evolution of the soil as well as the
human intervention contributes to the delineation of this role.
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