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What is an example of soil parent material?

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Soil comprises five ingredients — minerals, soil organic matter, living organisms, gas, and water. Soil minerals are divided into three sizes: clay, silt, and sand. The percentages of particles in these size classes are called soil texture.

Some examples are:

Plinthite — which hardens irreversibly upon repeated wetting and drying.

Sulfidic — a horizon containing pyrite which, upon exposure to oxygen, can produce so much sulfuric acid that it kills plants and can cause fish kills.

Petrocalcic — in which so much calcium carbonate is accumulated that it forms a rock-like layer in the middle of a soil

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