Saprolite
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Saprolite is a chemically weathered rock. Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil profiles and represent deep weathering of the bedrock surface. In most outcrops, its color comes from ferric compou
A represents soil; B represents laterite, a regolith; C represents saprolite, a less-weathered regolith; beneath C is bedrock.
Saprolite at Arranmore (Ireland). Transition from tectonized quartzite through saprolite to laterite. The weathered section is covered by glacial drift with scattered erratics, Holocene sandy soil and thin bog.
Bedrock
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In geology, bedrock is the solid rock that lies under weathered rock and unconsolidated or loose superficial deposits in the near surface part of Earth's crust or the crust of another terrestrial plan
Saprolite
…Saprolite is a chemically weathered rock. Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil profiles and represent deep weathering of the bedrock surface. In most outcrops, its color comes from ferric compounds. Deeply weathered profiles are widespread on the continental landmasses between latitudes…
Soil with broken rock fragments overlying bedrock at Sandside Bay, Caithness, Scotland