Which of the following is an example of primary succession?

Select one:

a. Wetland re-growth after a severe storm

b. Forest re-growth after an ice storm

c. Plant development on a layer of rock deposits

d. An abandoned farm becoming a meadow

Primary succession is one of two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life, occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited. In other words, it is the gradual growth of an ecosystem over a longer period