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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Fields of Study > soil science > soil > soil types > chemical soil types > saline soils
Preferred Term:

saline soils

Definition:
A nonsodic soil containing sufficient soluble salt to adversely affect the growth of most crop plants with a lower limit of electrical conductivity of the saturated extract (ECe) being 4 deciSiemens / meter (dS/m), which is equivalent to a value of 4 mmhos/cm.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
NALT Core
Broader Concept:
chemical soil types
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URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/24692
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RDF/XMLCreated 2006-01-19, last modified 2015-03-12
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