Soil Salinity - Non-watertable (magnesia patches)

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

Non-watertable salinity (or dry saline land) is where soil contains elevated levels of soluble salts that are not associated with a watertable. Magnesia patches occur where high concentrations of this salt extend to the surface and visibly affect plant growth. Mapping shows the proportion of land affected by magnesia patches, while detailed proportion data are supplied for calculating total areas of affected land (spatial data statistics).

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Field Value
Title Soil Salinity - Non-watertable (magnesia patches)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cc85d3b3-c290-4633-b7c4-ffe78e7c64e5
Remote Last Updated 18/02/2020
Contact Point
Reference Period 09/06/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    135.866666,
    -29.383333
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal South Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "Soil Salinity - Non-watertable (magnesia patches)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/salinity-nwt-magnesia