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A typical soil is over 90 percent mineral, made of tiny fragments of broken-down rock. Take a close look at some soil-better yet, rub some between your fingers-and you may notice tiny grains of quartz, feldspar, and shiny mica, or pearly dolomite, or dark basalt from lava flows. When soil is poor, you can often blame the parent-parent rock, that is. A soil's parent rock is the rock from which the soil formed, and it determines the nutrient richness of the resulting soil.

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