The simulation demonstrates how iron and aluminum sesquioxides are leached, mobilized, and re-precipitated within a tropical soil profile under alternating wet and dry seasons, gradually cementing a hardened duricrust layer.
Adjust the sliders for rainfall intensity, wet-dry cycle length, and parent rock composition to watch oxide-rich cement accumulate and harden into a laterite caprock over simulated time.
Sliders for rainfall intensity, wet-dry cycle length, and parent rock composition
Some laterite-capped plateaus in tropical regions preserve land surfaces that have remained protected from erosion for tens of millions of years, acting as natural time capsules of ancient climate.
The simulation demonstrates how iron and aluminum sesquioxides are leached, mobilized, and re-precipitated within a tropical soil profile under alternating wet and dry seasons, gradually cementing a hardened duricrust layer.
The simulation demonstrates how iron and aluminum sesquioxides are leached, mobilized, and re-precipitated within a tropical soil profile under alternating wet and dry seasons, gradually cementing a hardened duricrust layer.
Adjust the sliders for rainfall intensity, wet-dry cycle length, and parent rock composition to watch oxide-rich cement accumulate and harden into a laterite caprock over simulated time.
Some laterite-capped plateaus in tropical regions preserve land surfaces that have remained protected from erosion for tens of millions of years, acting as natural time capsules of ancient climate.