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illuviation
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illuviation

Accumulation of dissolved or suspended soil materials in one area or layer as a result of leaching (percolation) from another. Usually clay, iron, or humus wash out and form a line with a different consistency and color. These lines are important for studying the composition and ages of rock strata.

illuviation [i‚lü·vē′ā·shən]
(geology)
The deposition of colloids, soluble salts, and small mineral particles in an underlying layer of soil.
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Qualitatively, soils developing in the uplands are the oldest in the chronosequence: lower horizons are reddened and have prominent illuviated clay cutans, with a leached E horizon.
Geology and Geography by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine if elements other than Al and Fe are chelated by soil organic matter and illuviated to deeper soil horizons.
Agriculture section. (Senior Division 2002) by Wilson, Mack / Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science
It means that a large part of illuviated sesquioxides appear to be derived from forest litter over time, as it was ascertained for the Nordic Podzols (Giesler et al.
Podzolization in aeolian sands, underlain by gleysol formation, ... by Reintam, Loit; Raukas, Anto; Kleesment, Anne; Moora, Tanel; Kahrik, Raja / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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