About the specifics of the island soil formations (on the example of the islands of Northwest Pacific)

Abstract

Based on publications on the soils of the Northwest Pacific, particularly wide effect of climatic factor on soil formation associated with the influence of the ocean has been established. Together with the amount of liquid atmospheric precipitation, the regime and the intensity of their precipitation play an important role. Heat supply is determined not only by insolation, but also by the wind regime, as well as the presence of warm and cold currents. The scale of the pulsed contribution of sea water salts with sediments is related to the distance to the coastline. In additions, the ornithogenic factor acts on small islands. All this creates variants of soil formation specificity on the characterized islands.

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