solodize

English

Verb

solodize (third-person singular simple present solodizes, present participle solodizing, simple past and past participle solodized)

1. (soil science) To cause to become solodic.
   • 1936, Charles Edwin Kellogg, Development and Significance of the Great Soil Groups of the United States:

     A light-colored horizon, representing the region of maximum leaching (or reduction) where podzolized or solodized.

   • 1945, Charles Frederick Bentley, A Study of Some Solonetz Soil Complexes in Saskatchewan, page 20:

     It may also be that while in the grassland region these soils had begun to solodize and that subsequently they were subjected to the process of podsolization .

   • 1953, Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations, University of Wisconsin, page 464:

     The soil does not begin to solodize until most of the exchangeable sodium has been replaced.

   • 1975, United States. Dept. of Commerce. Office of Technical Services, OTS. - Issues 70-57103, page 258:

     The analyses of aqueous extracts (Table 76) show that the upper horizon is very slightly saline mainly with sodium chloride, which apparently helps to to solodize the soils.

   • 1983, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, volume 23:

     The vineyards in both Districts are on various duplex soils: red-brown earths, solodized-solonetz and solodic soils, yellow podzolic soils and soloths.