Salic (WRB qualifier)

As a qualifier, salic refers to...

Details

• Endosalic (ns): having a salic horizon starting between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
• Episalic (ea): having a salic horizon starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
• Hypersalic (hs): having an EC_e of 30 dS m^-1 or more at 25 °C in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
• Hyposalic (ws): having an EC_e of 4 dS m^-1 or more at 25 °C in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.

Use of salic as a qualifier

It can be used as a prefix qualifier for :

• Anthrosol
• Cryosol
• Fluvisol
• Histosol
• Leptosol
• Solonetz
• Vertisol

It can be used as a suffix qualifier for :

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