Which compositional result can diminish soil during laterization?

💡 Explanation

Silica depletion, or desilication, diminishes soil development during laterization because intense weathering under hot and humid conditions leads to solution weathering, therefore silica is removed rather than forming clay minerals, disrupting pedogenesis and soil fertility.

• Which flow outcome results when debris deposition overwhelms channel capacity at steep mountain exits, forming alluvial fans?
• Which outcome accelerates topsoil development via Antarctic cryoturbation?
• Which risk increases when pyroclastic flows encounter water?
• Which effect increases phytoplankton concentration when coastal upwelling occurs?
• Which effect significantly alters global deep ocean current flow pathways in the North Atlantic?
• Which mechanism MOST directly causes meandering stream formation on a gently sloping floodplain?