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Patricia Bolf-Charmi © 2016-2018
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Soil from the surroundings of the historic village of Kandelous in the Iranian province of Mazandaran.
Historical geology classifies the origin of soil in the age of palaeogen. The bright yellow colour of this yellowish brown limestone clay results mainly from the mineral limonite and is the result of a relic browning process.
The shape creating process is induced by the continuous, dropwise increasing effect of water on the limestone clay in the dry state to the wet state in several intervals. This self-organized, relief-forming process is a scheme of geomorphological processes.