title: The suitability of physical and chemical properties of rocks for land reclamation in different subzones of the Ukrainian Steppe
abstract: The study of the properties of disturbed soils and rocks makes it possible to establish the parameters of the natural fertility of the studied substrates, to detect limiting factors, and to determine a set of restoration measures. The tested overburden rocks with the largest stratigraphic share of the open-pit quarries of the Nikopol manganese and Kerch iron ore deposits were loamy-like loess (Quaternary) and grey-green clay (Neogene). There is a certain parametric relationship between texture, 
journal: Journal of Geology Geography and Geoecology