Characteristics and mineralogy of desert alluvial soils: Wadi Zegrir,Northern Sahara of Algeria |
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| Authors: | Brahim Djili Baelhadj Hamdi-Aïssa |
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| Institution: | Laboratory of Biogeochemistry of Desert Areas, University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla, Ouargla, Algeria |
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| Abstract: | Few studies on the characteristics and mineralogical trends of the soils in the Sahara Desert have been reported in the literature. This work aims at studying the morphology, the classification, and the mineralogy of desert alluvial soils of the Mzab region in the Northern Sahara, Algeria. Morphological and analytical studies carried out on fourteen pedons of wadi Zegrir over a range of elevations (250–850?m) indicate that the soils are sandy to silty clay, nonsaline (electrical conductivity, EC?
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| Keywords: | Desert alluvial soils mineralogy Mzab Sahara wadi Zegrir |
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