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Assessment of some Physical and Chemical Properties of Soils in West Edfu Area, Aswan Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soils and water

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The soils in west Edfu are promising for land reclamation projects due to their location nearby the urban areas and availability of groundwater resources for crop irrigation. The objectives of this work were to evaluate of some physical and chemical propertiesof west Edfu soils which are located in the western part of the Aswan Governorate. The obtained results indicated that the majority of soils in the area under study is sandy textured, which had a very significant impact on their physical and chemical properties. The values of saturation percentage (SP) and soil porosity (E) are low, whereas the values of bulk density (ρb) were high especially in the western part of the study area. Electrical conductivity (ECe) values of the saturated soil past extracts in general vary between 1.29 to 61.29 dsm-1 with an average of 11.94 dS/m. The pH values of all studied soils are generally above 7.00 with a range of 7.12 to 8.95 and an average value of 7.76. On the other hand, the cations exchange capacity (CEC) values were low in most of the studied soils and it is ranges from 1.38 to 45.84 cmol(+)/kg with a mean value of 11.15 cmol(+)/kg. In the area under study the ESP values vary between 0.59 to 40.55% with an average value of 16.39%, CaCO3 in the studied soils ranges from 0.43 to 41.74% with a mean value of 7.23%. Gypsum content varies from 0.09 to 11.53% with an average value of 3.08%. In general, the dominance of salt composition in soils is Na2CO3 and CaCO3 and sometimes MgCO3 in sodic soils. The cationic composition of the soil is dominated by Na+ followed by Ca+2 and then Mg+2 and K+. Exceptional cases were found in some soil samples Ca+2 exceed Na+. The anionic composition is characterized by the dominance of Cl - followed by HCO3- then SO4 -2 while CO3 -2 in entirely absent. The results also indicate that the soluble cations and anions are very wide in range and distribution among the different locations.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2020.108427

Keywords

West Edfu, Physical properties, chemical properties, spatial variability

Authors

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M.

Last Name

Gameh

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Soils & Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University

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mohsen.ali28@aun.edu.eg

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Assiut

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A

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Abdalazem

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H.

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Faculty of Agriculture and Natural resources, Aswan University.

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First Name

H.

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Khozyem

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M.

Affiliation

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University.

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First Name

أحمد

Last Name

محمود عوض

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Affiliation

Faculty of Agriculture and Natural resources, Aswan University.

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First Name

A.

Last Name

Mohamed

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G.

Affiliation

Faculty of Agriculture and Natural resources, Aswan University.

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addeck@taibahu.edu.sa

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Volume

51

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1

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15326

Issue Date

2020-03-01

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2020-02-06

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2020-03-12

Page Start

150

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170

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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62

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Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessment of some Physical and Chemical Properties of Soils in West Edfu Area, Aswan Governorate, Egypt

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Created At

22 Jan 2023