Soils and Brine Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Hyperarid Desert Playa, Ouargla Basin, Algerian Sahara

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-126

  Hamdi Aissa, Belhadj ^a,b   Valles, Vincent ^c   Aventurier, Alain ^d   Ribolzi, Olivier ^e  

^a Laboratoire d'Analyses Physico Chimiques   (Algeria)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^d CIRAD   (France)

^e Institut de recherche pour le developpement Ouagadougou   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Desert soil; Groundwater; Gypsum; Ion activity; Micromorphology; Soil salinity; Soluble salts; Surface crust

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; MINERALOGY; PLAYA; SALINE SOIL; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA; OUARGLA;

EID: 1842817327     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: 15324990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1532480490279656     Document Type: Article

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