Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

, Volume 85, Issue 3, pp 1083–1088 | Cite as

Interactions between anthropogenic sulphate and marine salts in the Bs horizons of acidic soils in Scotland

  • H. Anderson
  • S. Peacock
  • A. Berg
  • R. C. Ferrier
Part I Soil Acidification Including Nutrient Imbalances

Abstract

In laboratory adsorption experiments, the comparison of podzol Bs horizons from coastal and inland moderately-impacted catchments with those from a severely-acidified inland region has demonstrated the effect of marine inputs on SO42− -retention. Moderate sea-salt inputs and low acid deposition leads to the retention of most of the SO42− and the release of soluble Mg2+; increasing the marine salt loading causes the development of a selectivity towards retention of “acidic” SO42− and the retention of Mg2+. In the highly-impacted soil, the marine input caused a decrease in SO42− retention in open moorland soils. The opposite occurred under forest, due to the ion-exchange of marine Mg2+ for soil Al3+, increasing soil acidity towards the pH0 (Gillman and Uehara, 1980), which is depressed below that of its moorland equivalent.

Key Words

Sulphate retention marine salts soil variable charge moorland and forest soils 
This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Curtin, D. & Syers, J.K. (1990): J. Soil Sci 41: 295–304.Google Scholar
  2. Ferrier, R.C. and Harriman, R.: 1990, The Surface Waters Acidification Programme, (Ed. B.J. Mason), Cambridge University Press, pp. 9–18.Google Scholar
  3. Gillman, G.P.: 1991, Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH, (Eds. R.J. Wright et al.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 25–34.Google Scholar
  4. Gillman, G.P. and Uehara, G.: 1980, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 44: 252–255.Google Scholar
  5. Harriman R., Anderson H.A. and Miller J.D.: 1995, Wat. Air Soil Poll., this volume, xx-xx.Google Scholar
  6. Harriman R., Ferrier, R.C., Jenkins, A. and Miller J.D.: 1990, ibid., 53: 31–45.Google Scholar
  7. Heath, R.H., Kahl, J.S., Norton, S.A. & Fernandez, I.J. (1992): Water Res. Research 28:1081–1088.Google Scholar
  8. Hendershot, W.H., Warfvinge, P., Courchesne, F. & Sverdrup, H.U. (1991: J. Environ. Qual. 20:505–509.Google Scholar
  9. Hindar A., Henriksen A., Tørseth K. and Semb A.: Nature 372, 327–328.Google Scholar
  10. Langan, S.J. (1989): Hydrol Proc. 3: 25–41.Google Scholar
  11. Miller, J.D., Anderson, H.A., Ferrier, R.C. & Walker, T.A.B. (1990): Forestry 63: 311–331.Google Scholar
  12. Miller, H.G. and Miller, J.D. (1980): Proc. Internat Conf. Ecol. Impact acid precip. Norway, SNSF Project.Google Scholar
  13. Norton, S.A., Brakke, D.F. and Henriksen, A.: 1989, Sci. Total Environ. 83: 113–125.Google Scholar
  14. Peacock, S.: 1994, Sulphur dynamics of the alpine soils in a Scottish catchment at risk from acidification. Ph.D. thesis, University of Aberdeen.Google Scholar
  15. Rajan, S.S.S.: 1978, Soil Sci Soc. Am. J. 42: 39–44.Google Scholar
  16. Richter, D.D., Comer, P.J., King, K.S., Sawin, H.S. & Wright, D.S. (1988): Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 52: 261–264.Google Scholar
  17. Ross, D.S. and Bartlett, R.J.: 1992, Soil Sci Soc. Am. J. 56: 1796–1799.Google Scholar
  18. Walker, T.A.B., McMahon, R.C., Hepburn, A. and Ferrier, R.C.: 1990, Sci Total Environ. 92: 235–247.Google Scholar
  19. Wiklander, L. (1975): Geoderma 14: 93–105.Google Scholar
  20. Wright, R.F., Lotse, E. & Semb, A.: 1988, Nature 334: 670–675.Google Scholar
  21. Zhang. G.Y., Zhang, X.N. & Yu, T.R. (1987): J. Soil Sci 38: 29–38.Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995

Authors and Affiliations

  • H. Anderson
    • 1
  • S. Peacock
    • 1
  • A. Berg
    • 2
  • R. C. Ferrier
    • 1
  1. 1.Macaulay Land Use Research InstituteAberdeenScotland
  2. 2.Department of GeographyWestfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätMünsterGermany

Personalised recommendations