Surface soil factors and soil characteristics in geo-physical milieu of Kebbi State Nigeria

Suleiman Usman

doi:https://doi.org/10.18393/ejss.2016.3.209-220

Makale detayları

Surface soil factors and soil characteristics in geo-physical milieu of Kebbi State Nigeria

Yazarlar:

Suleiman Usman

Yayıncı:

Avrasya Toprak Bilimleri Dernekleri Federasyonu

Dergi:

Eurasian Journal of Soil Science 2016 Vol.5 Issue 3, pp.209-220

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2016

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000423668

eISSN:

2147-4249

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18393/ejss.2016.3.209-220

Özet:

 


Soil erodibility (K factor) is the most important tool for estimation the erosion. The aim of this study Soil factors and surface soil characteristics are important components of agricultural environment. They support surface and subsurface soils to perform many functions to agriculture and economic human developments. Understanding these factors would aid to the recognition of the values that our soil and land offered to humanity. It is therefore, aim of this study to visualise and examine the soil factors and surface soil characteristics in Kebbi State Nigeria. An Integrated Surface Soil Approach (ISSA) was used in the classification and description of soil environment in the study region. The factors constituted in the ISSA are important components of soil science that theories and practice(s) noted to provide ideas on how soil environment functioned. The results indicate that the surface soil environments around Arewa, Argungu, Augie, Birnin Kebbi and Dandi are physically familiar with the following surface soil characteristics:  bad-lands, blown-out-lands, cirque-lands, fertile-lands, gullied-lands, miscellaneous and rock-outcrops.The major soil factors observed hat played an important role in surface soil manipulations and soil formation are alluvial, colluvial, fluvial and lacustrine; ant, earthworms and termite; and various forms of surface relief supported by temperature, rainfall, relative humidity and wind. Overall, the surface soil environment of the region was describe according to their physical appearance into fadama clay soils, fadama clay-loam soils, dryland sandy soils, dryland sandy-loam soils, dryland stony soils and organic-mineral soils.

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Makale detayları

Surface soil factors and soil characteristics in geo-physical milieu of Kebbi State Nigeria

Yazarlar: Suleiman Usman

Yayıncı: Avrasya Toprak Bilimleri Dernekleri Federasyonu

Dergi: Eurasian Journal of Soil Science 2016 Vol.5 Issue 3, pp.209-220

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2016

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000423668

eISSN: 2147-4249

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18393/ejss.2016.3.209-220

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Suleiman Usman

Yayıncı:

Avrasya Toprak Bilimleri Dernekleri Federasyonu

Dergi:

Eurasian Journal of Soil Science 2016 Vol.5 Issue 3, pp.209-220

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2016

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000423668

eISSN:

2147-4249

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18393/ejss.2016.3.209-220