Monteiro, F
Fonseca, M
Herbillon, Adrien
[UCL]
An evaluation of the factors determining the occurrence and the properties of soils with low permeability occurring in vast areas in S Portugal was carried out taking into account the terrain morphology and the geology of the region. This paper deals with the variation patterns of the physical and chemical characteristics of soils from several soil toposequences that occur under different gradient slopes and on different parent rocks. Spatial variation of soil properties mainly depends on the composition of their cation-exchange complex, as the role of other factors, such as the mineralogy of the clay fraction, were of minor importance. There is often a stronger increment of Na and/or Mg than of Ca with depth, causing a variable degree of sodicity in some of these soils, to which waterlogging tendency of their upper horizons is related. Though the occurrence of these features is determined by the nature of the parent rock, their degree of expression varies primarily according to the topographic position of soils. Therefore, a catenary distribution including nonsodic Cambisols or Luvisols in the hillcrests and Stagnic Solonetz or Sodic Luvisols or Sodic Stagnosols in the topographic lows is common. Such soil characteristics are of utmost importance for irrigation suitability and management of these soils, and for environmental impacts assessment, as the region is vulnerable to desertification.
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Bibliographic reference |
Monteiro, F ; Fonseca, M ; Herbillon, Adrien. Driving Factors determining the occurence of sodic soils in Meditterranean areas.. In: Journal of Plant nutrition and soils sciences, Vol. 175, no. 1, p. 94-100 (February 2012) |
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