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Article: Soil properties in and around acid sulfate soil scalds in the coastal floodplains of New South Wales, Australia.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Soil Research
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Introduction
Acid sulfate soil (ASS) scalds are persistently bare areas of land associated with pyrite oxidation and ASS formation in drained coastal floodplains. In Australia, ASS scalds have not previously been a main focus of research and have been considered part of a wider problem. Yet their seemingly intractable nature reflects their significance as chronic contributors to problems surrounding actual ASS formation and its consequences, including environmental (e.g. water quality, fish kills), economic (e.g. public/private infrastructure, rural productivity, land prices, tourism values), and social effects (e.g. catchment health, visual amenity, conflict ...