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Plant<br />

cover<br />

Living<br />

soil<br />

Mineral<br />

material<br />

Climate<br />

Litter<br />

Recognizable remains<br />

Inherited or newly<br />

formed mineral particles<br />

Rock fragments<br />

TIME<br />

Humic component<br />

Mineral component<br />

Figure 1. Vocabulary and dynamic formation of a sample of topsoil.<br />

FUNGAL (non faunal) dominant process<br />

Non zoogenically transformed material<br />

OR<br />

ANIMAL (faunal) dominant process<br />

Zoogenically transformed material<br />

OL<br />

OF<br />

OH<br />

A<br />

Organic and<br />

organo-mineral<br />

HORIZONS

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