Geological process

Residual enrichment

Concentration by subtraction. Prolonged weathering removes the soluble components of a rock and leaves the insoluble ones behind, so the residue is richer in them than the parent ever was.

In the knowledge graph

Residual enrichment is a depositional mechanism for Nickel-cobalt laterite system

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