Soil in Iraq

Iraq’s soils differ significantly from one another due to several soil-forming elements. The morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical differences between northern and southern Iraq indicate a general decline in the degree of soil development in those regions. Most soils found in Iraq are secondary in origin, meaning that the components were moved from their original location of weathering and accumulated elsewhere. In Iraq, classifying and surveying the soil began before 1950. The ranks of the Iraqi soils are divided according to the modern quantitative classification: There are many soil problems in Iraq, including salinity in the sedimentary plain, Human Effects, and Soil Erosion.