I need to describe and see similarities and dissimilarities between soil characteristics of Chotts and Sebkhas (Salty lakes in arid and semi arid areas).
I was searching for some papers on this topic ( salty soils of arid areas) and I have found only these articles that seams to be adequate to your topic research.
Guo, QN, Guo, TW , Ma, ZM , Che, ZX , Nan, L L ,Wang, YQ , Palta, JA ,Xiong, YC , 2014. Seasonal Performance and Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Salt Ions in a Semiarid Orchard of Northwest China, HORTSCIENCE, 49(5): 653-661
Yakir, D ,Yechieli, Y , 1995. Plant invasion of newly exposed hypersaline dead-sea shores, Nature, 374 (6525):803-805.
Haruyuki Fujimakia,Sho Shiozawab,2001. Mitsuhiro Inouec, effect of salty crust on soil albedo, Agricultural and Forest Meteorolog, Volume 118, Issues 1–2, 30 August 2003, Pages 125–135
Zhu Xue, Takeo Akae 2011. Maximum surface temperature model to evaluate evaporation from a saline soil in arid area,Paddy and Water Environment. Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 153-159
Ya-feng Zhang, Xin-ping Wang, Rui Hu, Yan-xia Pan, Hao Zhang. 2014. Variation of albedo to soil moisture for sand dunes and biological soil crusts in arid desert ecosystems, Environmental Earth Sciences. Volume 71, Issue 3, pp 1281-1288