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On the manifestation of solonetzic properties in soils of the steppe and dry steppe zones in the south of Ukraine

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Solonetzic soils are widespread in the south of Ukraine; some of them are represented by low-sodium solonetzes whose diagnostics is complicated by the absence of correspondence between the low content of exchangeable sodium and the clearly pronounced features of the illuvial solonetzic horizon. The statistical treatment of available literature, personal materials, and the materials of soil surveys in the south of Ukraine demonstrated that the diagnostics of low-sodium solonetzes should be based on the assessment of the degree of illuviation in the soil profile. It was shown that the degree of correlation between the content of exchangeable sodium and the degree of illuviation of the soil profile varies in dependence on the size of the statistical sample and differs for the low-sodium and medium-sodium solonetzes. Two scales characterizing the degree of soil illuviation were developed for these soil groups. It is suggested that these scales should be applied during soil surveys in the areas with solonetzic soils.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Novikova, 2007, published in Pochvovedenie, 2007, No. 7, pp. 811–822.

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Novikova, A.V. On the manifestation of solonetzic properties in soils of the steppe and dry steppe zones in the south of Ukraine. Eurasian Soil Sc. 40, 729–739 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229307070046

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