Aquisalids (Salorthids) and other wet saline and alkaline soils: Problems identifying aquic conditions and hydric soils

Aquic Conditions and Hydric Soils: The Problem Soils

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-97

  Boettinger, Janis L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline soil; Aquic conditions; Aquisalids; Field indicator; Hydric soils; Hydrophytic vegetation; Redoximorphic features; Soil morphology; Wet saline soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102673387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaspecpub50.c5     Document Type: Chapter

References (9)

1. Soil Conservation service. 1993. National soil survey handbook. Title 430-VI. U.S. Gov. Print. office, Washington, DC.
2. Soil Survey Staff. 1992. Keys to soil taxonomy. 5th ed. SMSS Tech. Monogr. 19. Pocahontas Press, Blacksburg, VA.
3. Soil Survey Staff. 1994. Keys to soil taxonomy. 6th ed. Pocahontas Press, Blacksburg, VA.
4. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. 1996. Field indicators of hydric soils in the United States: A guide for delineating hydric soils. USDA-NRCS, Fort Worth, TX.
5. Vepraskas, M.J. 1992. Redoximorphic features for identifying aquic conditions. Tech. Bull. 301. North Carolina Agric. Res. Serv., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh.
6. Vepraskas, M.J., and S.W. Sprecher. 1997. Overview of aquic conditions and hydric soils, p. 1-22. In M.J. Vepraskas and S.W. Sprecher (ed.) Aquic conditions and hydric soils: The problem soils. SSSA Spec. Publ. 50. SSSA, Madison, WI.
7. Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, S. Goodrich, and L.C. Higgins. 1993. A Utah flora. 2nd. ed. Revised. Print Serv., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT.
8. Whittig, L.D., and P.J. Janitzky. 1963. Mechanisms of formation of sodium carbonate in soils: I. Manifestations of biological conversions. J. Soil Sci. 14:322-333.
9. Williams, M. 1990. Understanding wetlands. p. 1-41. In M. Williams (ed.) Wetlands: A threatened landscape. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.