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Weathering processes and soil development have been classically considered as two aspects of a single phenomenon which is the transformation of rocks under climatic conditions (meteorization). White (1995) gave a clear definition of what is classically considered as a soil profile: “The soil profile is generally considered to make up the upper part of a much thicker weathering profile. A more inclusive definition of a soil profile is the vertical section that includes all the layers that have been pedologically altered during chemical weathering. Soil horizons defined within such profiles clearly recognize the vertical transition in the degree of weathering from the intensively altered A and E horizons through the moderately weathered B, to the relatively unaltered C horizons to bedrock (Buol et al. 1989).
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Velde, B., Meunier, A. (2008). The Development of Soils and Weathering Profile. In: The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75634-7_3
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