Quantification of the areas of saline and solonetzic soils in the Ural Federal Region of the Russian federation

• Published in: Eurasian soil science Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 367 - 379
• Main Authors: Chernousenko, G. I., Kalinina, N. V., Khitrov, N. B., Pankova, E. I., Rukhovich, D. I., Yamnova, I. A., Novikova, A. F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 01.04.2011; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Climatic conditions; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Genesis and Georgaphy of Soils; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Mapping; Neogene; Paleogene; Saline soils; Salinity; Salinization; Soil salinity; Soil sciences; Soils; Soils, Salts in; Steppes; Ural Mountains; Russia; Russia, Ural Mts; Chelyabinsk Oblast; Saline Soil; EURASIAN Soil Science; Sverdlovsk Oblast; West Siberian Plain

Soil Salinization Map of Russia on a scale of 1: 2500000 (the paper version) has been used for compiling an electronic map of the Ural Federal Region and an attribute database containing twelve characteristics of soil salinization. The areas of saline soils have been quantified for the entire region...