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Inorganic Soil Components—Minerals and Rocks

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The soil’s position in the material cycle of the lithosphere (Fig. 2.1) shows that a large number of processes are involved in the formation of rocks, lithogenesis , in the form of a cycle. At the beginning of lithogenesis, rocks are formed through crystallization when the molten magma cools down. They are subject to further diverse changes through the processes of weathering , erosion , transport , deposition , diagenesis , metamorphism and anatexis , which are connected to one another in a cycle. Soils are a significant station in this cycle. On the one hand, they are the result of the transformation of rock in contact with the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere (pedogenesis ), and on the other, they deliver material for the formation of new rocks. For this reason, soils cannot be understood and classified without knowledge of the rocks; however, the same is true for many rocks without knowledge of the soils (Kittrick 1985).

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  1. Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Hans-Peter Blume, Heiner Fleige & Rainer Horn

  2. Institute for Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ellen Kandeler & Karl Stahr

  3. Chair of Soil Science, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  4. Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ruben Kretzschmar

  5. Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Berndt-Michael Wilke

  6. Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Gerhard W. Brümmer

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Blume, HP. et al. (2016). Inorganic Soil Components—Minerals and Rocks. In: Scheffer/SchachtschabelSoil Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30942-7_2

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