One caveat: If your toddler is overweight, at risk for becoming overweight, if you have a family history of obesity, high blood pressure or heart disease, your pediatrician may recommend that your toddler drink 2% milk from age 1 to 2 instead of whole milk. But don't give her 1% or skim milk before age 2.
The final sediment thus reflects the energy of the transporting medium. Lithification (Diagenesis) - Lithification is the process that turns sediment into rock. The first stage of the process is compaction. Compaction occurs as the weight of the overlying material increases. Compaction forces the grains closer together, reducing pore space and eliminating some of the contained water. Some of this water may carry mineral components in solution, and these constituents may later precipitate as new minerals in the pore spaces.
water-filled pore space. Soil respiration was much lower at a bulk density of 1.8 Mg/m. 3 . compared to 1.4 Mg/m. 3, with a 65% reduction of microbial activity at 60% water-filled pore space. This indicates that soil bulk density affects soil microbial activity in ways other than just alteration of soil moisture levels.