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Patricia Bolf-Charmi © 2016-2018
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Soil from the surroundings of the historic village of Abyaneh in the Iranian province of Isfahan.
Like terra fusca, this soil results from intense weathering of carbonate rock and is considered to paleosol, a soil, which are formed long periods ago that have no relationship in their characteristics to today's climate or vegetation.
The shape creating process happened due to the escaping water from the reddish limestone clay in a mixed state to the dry state. This self-organized, relief-forming process is a scheme of geomorphological processes.