Answer to Question #104384 in Other for Perfect

Question

Assuming an area with a dolomite as the the parent material, describe in general terms how you would expect two soil profiles to differ, one in a warm, semiarid grassland and the other in a cool, humid pine forest.

Answer 1

Soils in warm arid and semi arid areas are extremely deficicient levels of calcium,pottasium and low cation exchange capacity and organic matter while soils in cool humid pine forest areas with dolomite as the parent material have high carbon content and exchangable calcium, magnesium and aluminum.