Which risk rises in soils lacking clay minerals?

💡 Explanation

Increased nutrient leaching happens because clay minerals facilitate adsorption; lack of clay reduces the soil's capacity to retain nutrient ions. Thus, water percolating through will more easily carry away nutrients via leaching, rather than remain adsorbed.

• Which cave-system change occurs during rapid glacial melt?
• Which mechanism causes felsic magma to exhibit higher explosivity during volcanic eruptions?
• Which outcome occurs when rising sea temperatures accelerate glacial melt and coastal erosion, disrupting sediment transport?
• Which mechanism dictates terrace formation due to cyclical base-level changes along an alluvial river?
• Which process causes increased lahar hazard after tephra deposition?
• Which nutrient change will develop within landlocked ocean gyres?