Which process primarily establishes soil profile horizons via pedogenesis?

💡 Explanation

Horizon segregation occurs via differential weathering; minerals weather at varied rates releasing ions. This initiates translocation due to leaching because chemical bonds break unevenly; therefore, layering arises rather than homogenous mixing expected from other depositional causes.

• Which outcome occurs when wave action undermines a coastal arch, forming offshore stacks?
• Which outcome occurs when seasonal wave energy increases along a coastal island system?
• Which outcome occurs when prolonged drought prevents loess stabilization?
• Which outcome in a karst landscape results when acidic groundwater dissolves subsurface limestone, and overlying clay sediment lacks internal cohesion?
• Which seismological effect occurs from intermittent strike-slip fault locking?
• Which outcome results at high altitudes when persistent surface winds feed moisture inland?