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Patricia Bolf-Charmi © 2016-2018
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Soil from the surroundings of the historic village of Meymand in the Iranian province of Kerman.
This unconsolidated sedimentary rock belongs to the geological formations of the Tertiary and was formed by the weathering of volcanic ash. The mineral montmorillonite is responsible for the structure of this soil and is responsible for its special swelling capacity.
The shape creating process is induced by the continuous, dropwise increasing effect of water on the sedimentary rock (bentonite) in the dry state to the wet state in several intervals. This self-organized, relief-forming process is a scheme of geomorphological processes.