CrystallizationProcesses
The processes affecting the carbonates in the soil can provoke two opposing effects: accumulation or destruction
1. Calcite formation
It may be useful to distinguish two categories of processes responsible for the accumulation of carbonates in soils:
Primary processes. Responsible for the initial accumulation of carbonates. Three very distinct processes can be distinguished:
Secondary processes. Affecting earlier formed pedogenic carbonates, or conditioned by their presence. Three types of processes can be distinguished:
2. Calcite destruction