Abstract
A study of soils susceptible to erosion was conducted on the sandy soils of northeastern Nigeria. Severe surface erosion occurred mostly on road cuts, gravel quarries, embankments, hillslopes, and mechanized farms, particularly those without natural vegetation cover. The soils are poorly graded sandy and silty sands, with low clay content, low in‐situ dry densities, and unstable microaggregates in water, ft was also observed that the misuse of land by humans and livestock, in combination with a short rainy season of torrential rainfall and a long dry season contribute to the initiation and development of socioeconomically destructive surface erosion in the region.
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