Soil characterization study reveals significant clay dispersion and poor nutrient retention in saline soils, highlighting seasonal vulnerability to degradation.
Saline soils occur extensively in Northeast Thailand. As the climate of this region is clearly differentiated into dry and rainy seasons, salts in the groundwater move up and accumulate on the soil surface during the dry season and are leached down with rainfall during the rainy season. In this paper, the physical and chemical properties concerned with salt movement were investigated for the saline soils in the Khon Kaen Region, Northeast Thailand. Changes in the physical and chemical properties with leaching were also studied in order to determine the effect of rainfall on desaltation. The saline soils in the Khon Kaen Region are generally sandy with low CEC, low content of organic matter and low buffering capacity. The dominant salt is NaCI, which facilitates the dispersion of clay. The main types of clay minerals are 1 : 1 type. All the soils contained large amounts of quartz, indicating that they are highly weathered soils. The amount of materials dispersed by water leaching, mainly clay, accounted for the large percentage of clay and silt fractions.
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