Open AccessTRAITS MORPHOPEDOLOGIQUES DUNE PENEPLAINE DE SAVANE ARBOREE A BROBO AU CENTRE DE LA COTE DIVOIRE
Author(s) -
Kouakou Yao Kouman Nestor,
Gala Bi Trazié Jérémie,
Yao Guy Fernand,
Kouadio Kouassi Gerard,
Albert Yao-Kouamé
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5407
DOI - 10.21474/ijar01/13590
Subject(s) - soil water , representativeness heuristic , geography , hectare , environmental science , forestry , soil science , archaeology , mathematics , agriculture , statistics
A morphopedological study was conducted on a 10 hectares plot of land near the village of Bopri in the sub-prefecture of Brobo. The objective was to identify the soils of this site in order to have a general overview of the soils of this region, which is poorly known from a pedological point of view and where the rare information relating to the soils goes back decades. Its implementation required the opening of 7 soil pits distributed homogeneously over the entire site in order to guarantee the representativeness of the information collected during these investigations. In total, this study revealed that this site contains a large proportion of typically ferralitic soils with deep indurations Haplic Ferralsols (Endopetric). However, in addition to this dominant category, anthropogenic Leptosols are found, which are characterised by a continuous mass of duricrust starting less than 25 cm deep and whose formation is consecutive of human activities.