National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra; 440010.
Present addresses: * National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Jothat, Assam, 785 013.
Morphological and analytical characteristics of two representative saline-sodic Vertisols in the humid/subhumid region of coastal plains of Gujarat have been described. An attempt has also been made to classify such soils bringing the important soil characteristics viz. calcareousness, salinity and sodicity at higher category level in the light of recent modification suggested by the International Committee on Management of Vertisols as has been accepted in Soil Taxonomy.
Saline-sodic Vertisols, Soil Taxonomy, calcareousness
