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solodic

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solodic

  1. (soil science) Leached of most minerals, but having slightly acid topsoil and subsoil that is enriched with sodium-saturated clay.
    • 1977, Australian Journal of Botany, volume 25, page 462:
      Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts []
    • 1983, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, volume 23:
      The vineyards in both Districts are on various duplex soils: red-brown earths, solodized-solonetz and solodic soils, yellow podzolic soils and soloths.