CHARACTERISATION OF PEDOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOILS OF CHAR KUKRI MUKRI, BANGLADESH

Abstract

An investigation of the morphological and physicochemical characteristics
of five soil profiles from Char Kukri Mukri, a remote offshore island of Bangladesh, was undertaken in an effort to evaluate their pedogenesis and to establish their taxonomy. The soils were very young, loamy textured with high percentage of silt and were also neutral to alkaline in reaction with high percentage of base saturation. Mica was the dominant clay mineral followed by kaolinite with small amounts of vermiculites and interstratified minerals. Composition of soil parent materials and the associated aquic moisture regime dominantly influenced the genesis of these soils. These soils were classed as Typic Endoaquents.