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← GeographyWhich outcome is promoted due soil's clay rich B-horizon nearing saturation?
A)Accelerated anaerobic microbial respiration✓
B)Increased nutrient cation adsorption
C)Enhanced chemical weathering reactions
D)Reduced horizon boundary stratification
💡 Explanation
Increased moisture facilitates anaerobic processes, triggering intense microbial activity using terminal electron acceptors during anaerobic microbial respiration. This is because the moisture limits oxygen, therefore it becomes dominant, rather than aerobic activity, which requires oxygen to be present.
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