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AGRICULTURE, AGROCHEMICAL, FEED PRODUCTION, AGROECOLOGY

STUDIES OF THE MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION OF GRAY-EARTH SOILS OF THE SHAULDER IRRIGATION MASSIF

Aliya Omirzakova 1 , Yersultan Songulov 1 , Azamat Yershibulov 1 , Sezai Delibacak 2

1 Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry named after U.U. Uspanov; 2 Ege University, Izmir

doi.org/10.37884/2-2025/17 pp. 172-182 Admitted 01.04.2025 Published 30.06.2025

Abstract

The study of the mineralogical composition of the soils of the Shaulder irrigated massif in the Turkestan region was conducted for the first time in order to develop scientific foundations for the rational use of irrigated gray soils and assess the current state of agricultural lands in southern Kazakhstan. In the arable horizon of the southern serozem (0-10 cm), the content of SiO₂ was 56.8%, alo₃ — 19.8%, fe₂o₃ — 9.73%, MgO — 4.75%. The silty fraction contains: illite (up to 16.8%), glauconite (up to 12.5%), kaolinite (up to 9.1%), chlorite (up to 12.6%), feldspar — up to 4.7%. In meadow-gray soil, the presence of thrones (up to 13.2%) in the middle horizon was noted.

Analysis of the finely dispersed fraction of the conjugated pair of southern serozems revealed the following mineralogical composition: illite, glauconite (hydroludes), mixed-layered illite-smectite formations, kaolinite, galloisite, chlorite (clinochlorite), feldspar and quartz. Illite, glauconite (hydrosludes), kaolinite, galloisite, chlorite (clinochlorite), quartz, and feldspar have been found in meadow-gray soils. In addition, magnesian aluminosilicates are present in the chlorite-kaolinite-hydrous mineral association.

The study of the mineralogical composition of irrigated and non-irrigated gray-earth soils showed the accumulation of silt due to illites as a result of agradation processes associated with the fixation of potassium from various sources and the dispersion of mica of a large fraction. An increase in the content of hydrous mica in arable horizons indicates the transformation of silt into hydrous caused by the physical dispersion of large micas and the destruction of part of the smectite phase. This, in turn, led to structural changes in the finely dispersed part of the soils under the influence of irrigation.

fine mineralogy irrigated soils southern serozems hydrosludes mixed-layer formations kaolinite chlorite

01 Introduction

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