Geography 2330A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension, Eof, Soil Horizon
5 Apr 2016
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Slopes may be low, igh, steep, etc. all have hydrological processes runign of them and sediment deposiion transport running of them. If we dig into this slope, theres a soil layer, and bedrock. Soil layer is referred to as regolith layer which is original layer of bedrock that"s being weathered and hcnagedinto something. We clal it regolith rather than soil because soil has other ocmpsoions and tyeps of things in it. The criical zone is upper few metres of earths surface and evegtaion cover and where lal funcions of life happen. Criical zone is just a concept, not an actual thing. That weathering is important to hydrology and geomorphology because the weathering takes original in tact solid rock and turn it into somehitng else. If we go from bedrock to regolith and we get there by weathering processes, this maters hydrologiclaly because the porosity (water storage), permeability, iniltraion capacity are comeplelty dif for solid rock than they are for regolith.
