Classification, Properties, and Management of Aridisols
This presentation has been converted from a slide, tape, and booklet
presentation by C.B. Mack and O.A. Chadwick, published in 1987 by the
Office of Arid Lands Studies. The original was based on the 1975 edition
of Soil Taxonomy, and while we have tried to be faithful to the
original, Soil Taxonomy has recently been updated, and many parts
of it were changed. Since many soils have been classified using the old
system and many soil scientists trained on it, Joe
Tabor has made some changes and additions to the original text to
bridge the old to the new by explaining how the soils shown in the slides
are classified in both systems. Please forgive any confusion this has
caused, but we would like have the information here be as useful as possible.
- Introduction
- Introduction to Aridic Soils
- Soil Taxonomy
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- Diagnostic Soil Horizons
- Introduction to Soil Horizons
- The Diagnostic Horizons
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- Classifications Within
the Order Aridisol
- Suborders and Great Groups
- Argid Suborder
- Orthid Suborder
- Subgroups, Using the Haplargid Great
Group as an Example
- Families
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- Soils of Arid Regions Not in the Aridisol
Order
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- Management of Aridic
Soils
- Irrigation of Aridic Soils
- Saline Soils
- Sodic Soils and Saline-Sodic Soils
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- Final Considerations
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