Reference soil Russian Federation 13: Solonetz

RU013

Solonetzes occur where a sodium source supplies the clay-rich subsoil with exchangeable Na, causing peptization of clay and organic substances and deterioration of the topsoil.

Characteristics

Soils having a natric horizon (a subsurface horizon with distinct higher clay content than the overlying horizon and more than 15% exchangeable sodium) within 100 cm from the soil surface.

Distribution of Solonetz (rough estimation supplied by soilgrids)

 

Reference soil RU013: Solonetz

gleyic calcic Solonetz epiclayic, Location: Hrenovoe, 10 km to east

 

Classification

WRB 2006

Greyic-Calcic Solonetz (Clayic)  
Location: 

Hrenovoe, 10 km to east

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