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  • noun A type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more than 15% exchangeable sodium.

Etymologies

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Russian солонец, "salt marsh".

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  • Possibilities for establishing plantations on solonetz soils in the Trans-Ural forest-steppe

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