Which outcome occurs when abundant rainfall causes extensive soil leaching in vegetated volcanic slopes?

💡 Explanation

The 'laterization' pedogenic process results in duricrust, because leaching removes silica and bases, concentrating iron and aluminum oxides, therefore a hardened, infertile layer forms, rather than eutrophication involving runoff minerals, or earthquake occurrences related to plate tectonics.

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