where the rock particles in plants are stored?
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Soil can be made up of organic (animal and plant) material, inorganic (grains of rock) components, and water. Eroded rock material can be deposited in layers to form sedimentary rocks, such as sandstone, limestone and mudstone.
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Sedimentary rock covers 75-80% of the Earth's crust, and it forms parent materials for a large majority of soils. Soil parent material has a significant direct influence on the nutrient element contents of the soil; this influence is more pronounced in young soils and diminishes somewhat with increasing soil age and soil weathering. In order to better understand the effect of soil parent materials on the soil elemental composition, it is useful to review the mineralogical composition of common rocks that make up the soil parent material (Table 1). Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the original solidification of rock or during metamorphism, and they are usually derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks in soil (Lapidus 1987). In most soils, feldspars, micas, and quartz are the main primary mineral constituents, and pyroxenes and hornblendes are present in smaller amounts.