The understanding of the relationships between geology, geomorphology and pedology underlies activities of soil classification and the evaluation of the pedological distribution of an area. This study was motivated by the lack of reports of this nature for the region of Lavras (MG), where several soil classes occur, related to a great petrological variety in the parent material and different geomorphological domains. The objective was to study the relationships between parent materials (pedogeological relationship), relief classes (pedogeomorphological relationship) and soils with argillic horizons, to propose a distribution model of these soils in the said landscape. Soils with argillic horizons of regional occurrence were selected due to the evolution stage with preserved parent rock characteristics. Such soils are developed in this region on slopes between 12 and 45 %, generating different soil classes with argillic horizons related to the parent material. For this study, the rock substratum petrology was interpreted and the geomorphology individualized, by means of slopes classes. In field trips, representative profiles of the main soil classes were selected and characterized and the pedogeological and pedogeomorphological relationships were evaluated, underlying the proposal of a soil distribution model for the landscape of Lavras (MG).
pedogenesis; petrology; slope classes; soils with argillic horizons; geomorphology; soils
