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Principal Soil Deposits
Residual
Names Can be found
Residual sands Residual sand tends to settle on top of
the rock bed.
Residual clay The section of the earth's surface made
up of humus and crumbled rock is where
you'll usually find it. And it is also found
near the original rock source and is
regarded as the purest clay.
Made of Picture
Granite rock and other igneous
rocks
It is generated by the chemical
breakdown of rocks containing
silica and alumina, such as
granite, and the solution of rocks
that contain clayey impurities,
which are insoluble and formed
like clay, including limestone.
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Organic
Peat Peat soil builds up in wetland habitats
known as peatlands or peat bogs. These
are the biggest reserves of terrestrial
organic carbon and are created by the
natural buildup of partially degraded
biomass.
Muck Muck soils developed in regions where
water ponded but was shallow enough to
support extensive plant growth and
cover.
Estuarine deposits Found on the coast, where freshwater,
such as a river or a bay, meets the sea.
A mushy, crumbly, dark brown
mass made up of generations of
dead and partially rotting organic
matter.
Muck has a high tannin content,
giving it its distinctive black color.
Muck soils include between 20%
to 80% organic matter.
The topsoil layer of an estuary or
salt marsh is usually made up of
peat or salt crust. This layer will
contain undecomposed
vegetation and sea animals in
dense places with higher
quantities of organic material.
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Alluvial-Lacustrine Formed in the bottom of ancient lakes. Sedimentary rock formation

deposits

Deltaic deposits River drift is often seen in seas and lakes A stream-made sediment deposit
at river mouths. The deposition is caused that is partly subaerial.
by a significant decline in water flow rate,
as well as the coagulation of tiny particles
carried by the river in suspension or as
colloidal solutions when they come into
contact with saltwater.
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Piedmont deposits At the foot of a mountain, a geological
landform produced by debris deposited
by rushing streams.
Aeolian
Loess A wind-deposited, unstratified,
geologically recent deposit of silty or
loamy material with light to
yellowish-brown color.
The rocks are crystalline
metamorphic and igneous. These
encompass a wide range of rock
types created by metamorphic
processes deep within the earth.
The wind is the most common
cause of loess, but glaciers can
also cause it.
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Dune sands A dune is a sand mound created by the The wind has created a mound
wind, commonly on a beach or in the or ridge out of sand grains under
desert. the pull of gravity.

Marine

Shore deposits The ocean border of a large coastal plain Fluvial sediment is frequently
made up of unconsolidated marine and derived through bedrock or
river silt forms a low elevation mountains located far inland.
depositional coastline.

Marine clays Marine clay is a form of clay that can be Marine clay is a soft soil that is
found in coastal areas all around the mostly found offshore and along
globe. the coast.
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Glacial
Glacial till The sediment deposited by a glacier is
known as glacial till. It covers glacier
forefields, can be mounded to form
moraines and other glacier formations,
and is found all over the world.
Glacio-Fluvial deposits When the glacier is actively melting, flat
areas characterized by braided rivers are
discovered.
Glacio-Lacustrine Rift graben lakes, oxbow lakes, glacier
deposits lakes, and crater lakes are just a few of
the lake forms that might form.
Till is formed by the erosion and
entrainment of debris.
Boulders, gravel, sand, silt, and
clay from ice sheets or glaciers
make up glaciofluvial deposits.
Glaciers transport material, which
is then sorted and deposited by
streams coming from the melting
ice.
Glacier sediments have been
deposited in lakes.
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Colluvial

Talus Talus is a frequent feature of formerly Talus is made up of irregularly

glaciated mountain ranges. Talus cones shaped, coarse particles. It is a
form as material from above is good supply of fragmented rock
channelized in rock chutes on its way to bits and coarse-grained soils for
the cliff's base. many engineering projects.

Hilwash A loose deposit of rock debris Typically made up of a diverse

accumulated at the base of a cliff or range of rock types and
slope due to gravity's effect. sediments ranging from silt to
small rock fragments.
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Landslide deposits A landslide occurrence, which refers to
the downward movement of rock,
sediment, or debris, produces this type of
deposit.
Pyroclastic
Ejecta Pyroclasts are pyroclastic rocks that
originate as a result of volcanic steam
explosions and are fully made up of
unexpected clasts.
Pumice Pumice is derived from both continental
and undersea volcanic occurrences and
can be found all over the world.
Soil and gravel pieces commonly
coexist in landslide deposits, and
their proportions may impact
meteorological and erosion
processes on the deposit's steep
slopes.
Ejecta from a volcanic explosion
and magma ejection volcanic
outlet, or crater, has traveled
through the air or even
underwater before crashing to
the land or the ocean bottom.
When volcanoes erupt violently,
pumice is generated. It is formed
by the same type of magma that
produces granite or rhyolite,
namely silica-rich magma
(quartz).