Hameed K. Abdul-Ameer(1) and Gehan J. Jomaa*(1)
(1). Al-Furat Al-Awast Technical University, Al-Mussaib Technical College, Babylon, Iraq
(*Corresponding author: Gehan J. Jomaa. E-mail: h.k.almjadi@gmail.com).
Received: 14/07/2020 Accepted: 02/08/2020
Abstract
A field and map studies were carried out in 2019 on some soil series of the Great Mussaib Project, which is a part of the Iraqi Mesopotamia plain , that is located within the geographical coordinates 33.32 °, 32.47 ° N, 44.29 ° and 44.55 °E . The soil series were mapped and then dropped on their sites using the GPS device, then they revealed and described morphological and obtained samples for the purpose of analysis, in addition to obtaining measurements on the units of the map, and the results indicated that the soils series differed among themselves in terms of soil particle, salinity was high and the CEC is positively associated with clay content, and carbonate minerals increased with depth, the distribution of gypsum did not take a certain pattern, association state of series result appeared the type of joint enclosure of more than one series surrounding other, which indicated cases of homogeneity of sedimentation. The results of the statistical constants of the soil particles confirmed that their size falls within the ranges of the medium and fine silt, degree of sediment sorting was poor and that the degree of flatness range from the flat type to the very flat. While the results of the map unit analysis indicated that the soil series took the shape of rotation more than the elongation state which is confirmed by the coefficient positive correlation between series area and their boundary.
Key words: Mussiab project, Soil series, Statistical constant, Association status.