The finely divided, red, brown, and yellow soil- colouring minerals originate by what process?
A) chemical weathering of quartz and feldspars
B) precipitation of insoluble iron oxides during the chemical weathering process
C) mechanical weathering of very fine- grained, blue- grey clays
D) mechanical weathering of the feldspars and micas in granite and rhyolite
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