Common features of the stream terrace are friable serpentine soils that are stable, not eroding, and not prone to frost heave.
A major, consistent chemical feature of serpentine soil is a bioavailable calcium:magnesium ratio much less than 1.
The plant grows in chaparral, scrub, and other local plant communities, often on serpentine soils.
The mine is linear, very long, irregularly curved, sometimes serpentine and transparently whitish in appearance, without any trace of frass.
Birbhum is known not only for its red soil and the shallow serpentine rivers ridden with sand islands, but also for the notable poets.
A 5-loop serpentine was introduced, to be ridden at the canter, both with flying lead changes and with counter-canter loops.
Accessory and alteration minerals include hornblende, biotite, apatite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, serpentine, chlorite, and calcite.
The serpentine early track often has a reddish orange frass stain that occasionally zigzags from side to side.
