How does mineral availability change when intense rainfall accelerates leaching?

💡 Explanation

Intense rainfall drives the process of eluviation, which removes mobile soil constituents; because surface nutrients leach downwards, topsoil fertility declines and plants are deprived, therefore nutrient availability diminishes, rather than salt accumulating or deeper horizons changing.

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