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| Dry Dry Ruins Towards the top and bottom you can see the small holes that are the Alveoli. If you also look at the columns you can see the lighter color that is salt. |
In the northern area of the Dry Dry Desert is the Dry Dry Ruins. Like the pyramids of Egypt the Ruins are made from limestone. Because the ruins are located in a desert there is salt weathering occurring. Salt weathering is common in deserts because there is little water to wash away the salt. There are two types of salt weathering; one, which is rapid heating and cooling this exerts pressure and makes the salts expand which cracks the rock. The second is crystallization this is where water gets into pores of a rock, and when the water dries the crystals grow, this exerts an outward force that can expand or weaken the rocks. As a result from the salt weathering there is Alveoli on the top and bottom of the ruins, this is a type of cavernous weathering.
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| Mario walking on the aridisol soil |
When looking closely at the soil you can see that it is made up of K-horizon on the soil profile. This makes a very hard mineral called caliche present in the soil. In arid areas aridisol is the common type of soil. Though the Desert is too hot for human life, the Ruins however are the native home to the Chomps.
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