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Kuwait Desert Soil Properties and Genesis Genèse Et Propriétés Des Sols Du Désert Du Koweit Scientific registration n° : 77 Symposium n° : 15 Presentation : poster Kuwait Desert Soil Properties And Genesis Genèse et propriétés des sols du désert du Koweit ABDAL M. S., M.K.SULEIMAN Aridland Agriculture Department Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research P.O.Box 24885, Safat 13109, Kuwait INTRODUCTION Kuwait's environment is characterized by scanty and infrequent rainfall (100 mm/yr) high rates of evaporation (35.5 mm/day in July), and extreme temperature variations throughout the year. The summer temperature is very hot (over 40-50oC), while the winter is cool to mild with a mean temperature of 12.7oC. Kuwait covers an area of about 17600 km2 at the north-eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula, between 28o 30 N and 30o 05 N in latitude and between 46o 33 E and 48o 35 longitude in addition to ten offshore islands. In the desert of Kuwait, the sediments, flora, and fauna, are integrated in harmony with the natural processes of the area. The most crucial soil forming factors existing over the years in this desert have been the aeolian processes. These processes have been impacted by wind erosion and have been influenced by the topography of the location or site. The nature of the parent material and the types and quantities of native plants, at each site location have also affected the soil forming processes, and have likewise influenced the extent to which the wind has caused erosion. Aeolian processes are activated or reflected by frequent sandstorms and dust-storms and accumulations of various types of aeolian sediments. Most of the northern part of the country has been blanketed by deflation, to lag gravels that protect the underlying finer sediments from wind action. The western and southern parts of the country have been covered mostly with vegetated sand sheets that have deteriorated significantly, due to excessive uncontrolled human activities (Khalaf et. al., 1984). SURFACE GEOLOGY OF KUWAIT The land surface of Kuwait is flat and slopes gradually north-eastward with an average gradient of about 2 m/km. Kuwait's desert can be divided into four physiographic provinces: Al-Dibdibba gravelly plain; southern desert flat; coastal flat; and coastal hills (Khalaf et al., 1984). The surface of Kuwait is carved into a clastic deposit sequence, which is locally called the Kuwait Group, and ranges in age from Miocene to recent (Owen & Nasr 1958; Milton 1965; Fuchs et al., 1968; Khalaf et al., 1984). The Kuwaiti desert is covered by several types of recent surface sediments (Khalaf et al., 1984). These are: aeolian deposits; residual deposits; playa deposits; desert plain deposits; slope deposits; and coastal deposits. 1 Aeolian sand deposits are the most frequent and cover many parts of the surface of Kuwait. Gypcrete is very abundant in the north where it has developed from gypsum precipitation in the upper horizon of the sand gravel deposits of the Al-Dibdibba formation. Calcrete and silcrete are more dominant in the south where they cap several isolated hills, e.g. Warah, Burgan and several hills in the Al-Wafra area. Fig. 1 is a simplified map of the distribution of the main types of recent surface sediments in Kuwait. SOIL CLASSIFICATION Four great soil groups have been recognized in Kuwait. These include: desert soil consisting of four units (sandy desert hardpan soils (A1), gypsiferous (A2), gravelly saline (A3), gravelly gypsiferous saline and saline gypsiferous soils (A4); desert regosol lutygrade - sandy desert (B1), and desert dune soils (B2); lithosols - escarpment (C1); and alluvial - hydromorphic saline alluvial soils (D1) and recent alluvial soils (D2) (Al- Nakshabandi & El-Mansy, 1984). The first two groups were formed under arid climatic conditions, and therefore, are sandy in texture and contain very low organic matter, and have considerable amount of cemented calcareous subsoil. The third group has a coarser texture, provides better drainage, and lacks the hardpan or cemented calcareous layer. The fourth group is found along the seashore; they are young, saline and gypsiferous. These alluvial soils should not be classified as hydromorphic as Ergun (1969) stated, because they are affected by tidal action and do not have a well developed profile. Also, they cannot be classified as solonchak, as suggested by Halwagy and Halwagy (1974), because solonchak and hydromorphic belong to the intrazonal order of soils, which have well developed profile (Foth and Tork, 1972). They can, however, be classified as saline alluvial deposits, belonging to the azonal order. Soil depth, drainability, consistency of substrata, and salinity, of the four great soil groups, are all shown in Table 1. More soil series were recognized by SCET - Cooperation in a survey conducted in 1970. Khalaf et al. (1984) recognized the following deposits on recent soil deposits of Kuwait: 1. Aeolian; (a) sand sheets, (b) sand dune, (c) sand drifts and (d) Aeolian Wadi Fill. 2. Residual; (a) residual gravels and (b) duricrust. 3. Playa. 4. Desert plain. 5. Alluvial fans and slope. 6. Coastal dunes; (a) coastal plain, (b) coastal dunes, (c) sabkha and (d) beach and tidal flat. SOIL CHARACTERISTICS A hardpan calcareous layer (locally called gatch) is found throughout the Kuwaiti desert at various depths. It is a consolidated calcareous sandy matrix with high silica content, which is slightly gypsiferous. In a study of soil and gatches in Kuwait desert, Yamane (1970) found that all gatches were slightly alkaline. The major primary minerals 2 were sodic plagioclase and orthoclase, with major clay minerals of montmorillonite and vermiculite. Chemical composition, grain size distribution, and the mineralogical constituents of gatches are given by Yamane (1970). Such layers can restrict plant root penetration and deep water percolation when they are strongly consolidated, which therefore leads to the formation of local shallow water tables. The infiltration rate of Kuwait desert soil is generally high and therefore classified as excessive, it ranges from 15-100 cm/hr.(Riley and Abdal, 1989). Permeability co-efficient or hydraulic conductivity studies for the upper 50 cm was measured to average to 1.56 meter per day (Al-Nakshabandi et al., 1983). Because of the extreme climatic soil limitations, low rainfall, sandy texture of the soil, wind erosion and the problem of hardpan, the productivity of Kuwait soil is potentially low (Ergun 1969; SCET-Cooperation 1970; Ueda and Ueda 1968). With the exception of the alluvial soil, most virgin soils in Kuwait are unaffected by salinity. The irrigation of crops on shallow gatch cultivated areas often hinders the percolation of gravitational water and, with time the level of salinity increases to an alarming levels, restricting plant growth (Abdal and Al-Ajmi, 1991 and Razzaque and Abdal, 1991). REFERENCES Abdal, M., and D. Al-Ajmi. 1991. Demography and Geography of Kuwait. Kuwait Oil Fire Symposium. Harvard University, August 8, 1991. Abdal, M., and D. Kater. 1993. 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