solodic

Leached of most minerals, but having slightly acid topsoil and subsoil that is enriched with sodium-saturated clay.

Adjective

  1. Leached of most minerals, but having slightly acid topsoil and subsoil that is enriched with sodium-saturated clay.
    • Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […] - 1977, Australian Journal of Botany, volume 25, page 462:
    • The vineyards in both Districts are on various duplex soils: red-brown earths, solodized-solonetz and solodic soils, yellow podzolic soils and soloths. - 1983, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal...