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Rocks, minerals, and soils are components of the lithosphere (upper part of the earth’s crust). Rocks and minerals provide raw materials (parent materials) for development of most of the soils of the world. The processes of disintegration (fragmentation, splitting, and detachment) and decomposition (formation of simpler substances from complex substances) are responsible for the production of loose and unconsolidated parent materials from rocks and minerals. These processes are collectively called weathering . Only a few soils develop from organic parent materials which are formed by deposition of residues of past vegetation , usually accumulated under wet conditions.
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Osman, K. (2013). Rocks, Minerals, and Soils. In: Forest Soils. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02541-4_1
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