Which risk increases when surface salt accumulation blankets desert soils?

💡 Explanation

Soil infiltration capacity reduces due to osmotic pressure from accumulated salt, causing increased water tables enriched in dissolved salts. Consequently water-table soil salinization increases because capillary action concentrates salts, rather than flooding, which needs intense rainfall events that overwhelm the soils.

• Which atmospheric effect causes deflection of large-scale ocean currents?
• Which risk increases when excessive irrigation is applied to an alluvial plain with poor drainage?
• Which flow pattern arises when wind-driven surface currents converge toward the center of an ocean gyre?
• Which phenomenon causes uplift and subsidence flanking strike-slip faults during rupture events?
• Which consequence results upon constructing housing developments on an alluvial fan without adequate drainage?
• During which season does thermohaline deep ocean circulation most strongly redistribute heat toward polar regions?