salination

Noun

salination (countable and uncountable, plural salinations)

1. A treatment with a salt solution.
2. The increase of salt content in soil.
   • Such extension of control diminishes disturbances of the peace, stabilises and thus promotes agricultural industry, and puts a check on the exhaustion and salination of the soil.1929, Report by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of ‘Iraq for the year 1928, London...
   • If you look down at the Punjab from an aircraft, you will see here and there below you, splotching the green fields like mold on the wall of an old house, patches of gray decay, rising patternless and ominous across the landscape. This is salination, a rotting of the land caused by a rise in the...1963, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents, New York: Pantheon, page 207
3. The increase of salt content in water.
   • It is evident […] that we ought to find every degree of salination of salt lakes.1884, Joseph Le Conte, A Compend of Geology, New York: Appleton, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 71
   • In many of the vast sea-level swamps of the Atlantic side, no slope whatever can be obtained, and here dependence is placed on a grid system of intercepting earthen ditches, communicating with seawater at each end whenever practicable, to insure quick run-off of rain water and thorough salination...1939, James Stevens Simmons, Malaria in Panama, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, Chapter 7 “Sanitary methods used for the control of malaria in the Canal Zone,” p. 189