When building Incan agricultural terraces, which process limitation was addressed by strategic layering?

💡 Explanation

Layering soil improved fertility because differential erosion sorts particles through gravitational settling, concentrating larger minerals closer to plant root tissues rather than losing essential elements to runoff; therefore terraces were fertile despite steep grades, rather than suffering massive nutrient loss.

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