Hi I teach intro soil science and the comic about “salinity” should really be titled “sodicity” because soils with too much sodium relative to other salts are sodic, not saline. Saline soils have too much total salts. You would not want to apply gypsum to a saline soil – that would increase the total salt content further and make the soil even more saline.
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Hi I teach intro soil science and the comic about “salinity” should really be titled “sodicity” because soils with too much sodium relative to other salts are sodic, not saline. Saline soils have too much total salts. You would not want to apply gypsum to a saline soil – that would increase the total salt content further and make the soil even more saline.
Hi Rivka
Thank you for your suggestion and critique