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Parent rock

Appears in 6 processs and 11 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

Top processes

Mineral weathering and parent material

4 steps

Start: Mineral weathering and parent material
End: Mineral weathering and parent material
Physical breakdown by freeze-thaw, wetting-drying and root wedging
and 1 more in this process

Pedogenic age sequence: from apatite phosphorus to occluded phosphorus

3 steps

Living soil system

1 step

Mineral weathering and parent material

Soil sulfur cycling

1 step

Sulfate enters from rain and dry deposition, gypsum and sulfide weathering, and fertilizer

Base cation cycling (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium)

1 step

Silicate and carbonate weathering, dust, sea salt and lime add base cations

Nutrient recycling versus new inputs across ecosystem age

1 step

Young ecosystems draw nutrients from weathering and deposition

Often found with

Plant roots 7 Water 3 Microbes 3 Primary minerals 3 Water 3 Iron oxides 3 Phosphorus 3 Rain 2 Atmosphere 2 Carbonic acid 1 Frost 1 Sulfate 1

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