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Further reading | Sodicity – a dirty word in Australia


Australasian Science
Summer 1997, pages 18-20
The land (by Allan Spessa and Gina Newton)
Australia's land environment is based on old, arid and generally infertile soils. We face a difficult challenge to manage this fragile resource sustainably.


Australasian Science Mag
Issue 3, 1991, pages 52-56
Land degradation – a geological perspective (by Arko Arakel)


New Scientist
Inside Science (No. 115), 14 November 1998
Ultimate interface (by David Rimmer)
The interactions of soil with the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere.

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