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What is Pedosphere
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Phy and Chemical weathering of lithosphere
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What are the three Phase of soil
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Solids, Liquid, and Gas
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How many years does it take to develop 1m of soil discomfument membrane to form
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about 10,000 to 50,000 years
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What are the two main soil erosion
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Sheet flow and mass movements
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What is Asthenosphere
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A scientific term for a plate which has been consumed by another plate.
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What is Lithosphere
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The scientific term for the earth's crust. This layer rests upon a hot liquid called the mantle, consisted of magma
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what is dominant soil
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The soil subgroup or association of subgroups which occupy more than 40% of the area of a map unit.
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What is Kimberlite Pipes
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the rock formation where diamonds can be found.
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What is peridotite
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part of the kimberlite pipes that inclusion form the mantle
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What is the coesite
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part of the kimberlite pipes high pressure quartz less than 300 km depth
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how is heat flow generated
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it is generated by radioactive decay
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