Salt content of lateritic profiles in the Darling Range, Western Australia
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Soil Research
- Vol. 12 (2) , 63-69
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sr9740063
Abstract
Soil cores from some 40 complete laterite profiles as deep as 40 m in the Darling Range, W.A., have been examined for salt content, and in some cases, pH. The sites cover a range of topographic situations from divides to valley floors, and of rainfall from 560 to 1350 mm per annum. Increases in surface soil salinity and in the salt concentration of water yields following clearing of the native hardwood forest are related to the amounts of soluble salts stored in the lateritic pallid zones. Storage increases as rainfall decreases in all slope situations. In low rainfall areas (Keywords
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