Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/424/en

and orientations toward the compass points, and so on — which in turn modifies the rhythmic interplay of the four elements. The surface form of any given village bounds speaks in this way of its earth and landscape history. Through weathering — that is, the working of the elements water, air and warmth upon the element of the earthy-solid — the mineral framework of the soil comes into being, composed, depending on the parent rock, of finer or coarser grain from quartz-silica and its silicate kindred, from lime and its lime-kindred, and from clays. This purely mineral substance composition proves the more significant for soil fertility the more balanced and deep-reaching it is in its formation.