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CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Abstract

The article provides valuable information about some arid soils in El-Moghra depression, western desert between 28°33'00"E to 28°38'12"E, and 30°05'30"N to 30°09'05"N; with an area of about 6541 hectares. It is one of the portions that included in the land-use planning development programs of the Egyptian government forexpanding the limited arable lands. The goal of the study is to investigate the spatial distribution of soil characteristics, classification and capability assessment for land-use management.  The recent technologies of remote sensing and GIS were employed in this work on basis difference of landforms. The obtained results indicate that the study area could be classified into Entisolsand Aridisols  orders including (1) very deep coarse-textured soils; Typic Torripsammentsthat characterized by capabilityclass III  (3195 hectares), (2) very deep coarse to moderately coarse-textured soils; Typic Torripsamments, which correlated to capability class III (1391hectares), and (3) very deep medium to moderately-fine textured soils; Typic Haplogypsidsand/or Gypsic Haplosalidsassociated  with capabilityclass II (1955 hectares). Therefore, soils of the study area can be used for conditioned agriculture with availability of irrigation water in terms of quality and quantity.  

DOI

10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019

Keywords

Aridisols, Entisols, El-Moghra, Land-use, Remote Sensing, GIS, Taxonomy, desert

Authors

First Name

Moamen

Last Name

ElKady

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Pedology, Water Resources and Desert Soils Division, Desert Research Centre, Cairo Egypt

Email

moamen.elkady@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Al-Sayed

Last Name

Abdelsalam

MiddleName

Fathy

Affiliation

Soils and Water Dept., National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt

Email

abdelsalam_ef@yahoo.com

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Volume

68

Article Issue

2

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8048

Issue Date

2018-12-01

Receive Date

2019-01-06

Publish Date

2018-12-01

Page Start

243

Page End

258

Print ISSN

1687-8043

Online ISSN

2356-9875

Article File

EJDR_Volume 68_Issue 2_Pages 243-258.pdf

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https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/article_52613.html

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117

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Desert Research

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https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/

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CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT

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22 Jan 2023