An area of saline sodic soil was intensively drained and treatments of gypsum (31 t/ha) or sulphur (6 t/ha) were applied, while control plots received no ameliorants. Physical and chemical soil analyses showed gypsum to have an ameliorative effect slightly superior to that of sulphur. Both treatments were more beneficial than the control but differences were not always as great as expected. For...

HIGHLIGHTS Spectral analysis is feasible to identify salinized areas. The most saline areas are lowlands with deficiency of natural drainage. studied soils in surface and saline-sodic subsurface.

clinopyroxene phenocrysts and microphenocrysts in potassic and sodic eosen alkaline volcanic rocks from the northern lahrud (nw iran) record various stages in the crystallization and evolution history of the alkaline melt as well as its origin. the rock series hosting the clinopyroxene phenocrysts is phonolitic tephrite and tephritic phonolite composition. theses rocks generally show porphyriti...

The application of organic amendments can be an appropriate solution to reclaim and improve physical propertiesof saline-sodic soils. In this research, an experiment was performed under greenhouse conditions to study the effect ofamendments to the physical properties of loamy saline-sodic soil. The five treatments were control (withoutamendment), municipal solid waste compost (MC), vermicompost...

Salinity is the leading abiotic stress hampering maize ( Zea mays L.) growth throughout the world, especially in Pakistan. During salinity stress, the endogenous ethylene level in plants increases, which retards proper root growth and consequent shoot growth of the plants. However, certain bacteria contain the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, which converts 1-aminocyclo...

Both highand medium-pressure granulites have been found as because of the absence of modal minerals. The combination of petrographic textures, mineral compositions, metamorphic reaction enclaves and boudins in tonalitic–trondhjemitic–granodioritic gneisses in the Hengshan Complex. Petrological evidence from these history, petrogenetic grids and thermobarometric data defines a nearrocks indicate...

New geological, bulk chemical and mineralogical (QEMSCAN and FEG-EPMA) data are presented for albitite-type uranium deposits of the Mount Isa region of Queensland, Australia. Early albitisation of interbedded metabasalt and metasiltstone predated intense deformation along D2 high strain (mylonite) zones. The early sodic alteration paragenetic stage includes albite, riebeckite, aegirine, apatite...