Blaze@reddthat.com to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMain road to Grindavík (Iceland) is covered under lavai.redd.itimagemessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up11.29Kfile-text
arrow-up11.29KimageMain road to Grindavík (Iceland) is covered under lavai.redd.itBlaze@reddthat.com to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square146fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredeus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·5 months agoI looked it up and unsurprisingly there’s a whole Wikipedia page about this. Long story short, it takes decades for rock to become soily at all so likely a much longer time till it becomes as soily as what’s around it here.
minus-squareggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoSuddenly thinking about how the race to sustainably create more soil will probably be a theme for scientific research in the near future. Desertification is scary!
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoLava rock tends to be very porous and “crumbly” though right? I would think it turns to soil faster than most other types of rock.
minus-squareDeceptichum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months ago Soil formation, also known as pedogenesis
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months ago^ when you’re done ruining Twitter for the day.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoNo, it’s someone who loves feet.
I looked it up and unsurprisingly there’s a whole Wikipedia page about this. Long story short, it takes decades for rock to become soily at all so likely a much longer time till it becomes as soily as what’s around it here.
Suddenly thinking about how the race to sustainably create more soil will probably be a theme for scientific research in the near future.
Desertification is scary!
Lava rock tends to be very porous and “crumbly” though right? I would think it turns to soil faster than most other types of rock.
^ when you’re done ruining Twitter for the day.
No, it’s someone who loves feet.